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Greedy

(adjective) Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.

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"The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money."
— Thomas Sowell
"We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have."
— William Shakespeare
"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever."
— Socrates
"Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
— Socrates
"Loss is not as bad as wanting more."
— Lao Tzu
"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
— Maya Angelou
"When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied."
— Dalai Lama
"No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government."
— Thomas Sowell
"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed."
— Albert Einstein

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