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Do you think that people who are born with wealth are more likely to be greedy? Do you think that all the bills being passed are essentially because of greed? |
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| Milton Friedman |
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed? |
| Dinesh D'Souza |
I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don't just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth. |
| Mignon McLaughlin |
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. |
| Gina Carano |
You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have. |
| Warren Buffett |
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. |
| Adam Davidson |
The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments. |
| Steve Earle |
I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie. |
| Tony Abbott |
Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed. |
| Larry Hagman |
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR. |
| Bob Marley |
Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere. |
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It would be crazy if Germany could get like one piece of paperwork right. Like jesus christ its a full time job fixing peoples mistakes on like bills and shit.
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I'm not sure. I do think its more likely that those born in money have an attitude that they're family is smarter and harder working than the less fortunate. But they certainly didn't make their fortune giving money away.
But those who don't have money probably don't share their money either. But I think they would better understand what being in the bottom of the 99% lives like.
It really comes down more to how one was raised. People who are raised well are just good people. You don't see shitty snobby kids from parents that teach lessons and enforce boundaries.
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Over the past few years, a new paradigm for thinking about humankind's future has begun to take shape among some leading computer scientists, neuroscientists, nanotechnologists and researchers at the forefront of technological development. The new paradigm rejects a crucial assumption that is implicit in both traditional futurology and practically all of today's political thinking. This is the assumption that the "human condition" is at root a constant. Present-day processes can be fine-tuned; wealth can be increased and redistributed; tools can be developed and refined; culture can change, sometimes drastically; but human nature itself is not up for grabs.
This assumption no longer holds true. Arguably it has never been true. Such innovations as speech, written language, printing, engin...
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I had a dream where I was leading a group of people that I think I had known a long time ago to an apartment where some relative of mine lived. I think they wanted to kill my relative for some reason and they didn't know I was related to this person so I was pretending to be on the group's side. I knew that if I stopped leading this group to my relatives apartment they'd attack me too. So I led them almost to the apartment but then I had a chance to disappear when they weren't looking so I ran into some random building and I found a way to climb up the wall. I was trying to get into a corner and hide and wait until they all disappeared. Some military-looking vehicle passed by and people shined lights in the windows but no one could see me because I was high enough up.
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'Everything you see in the western world, its cities, institutions, and wealth, is built on Black slavery.'
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If we were born in this world, don't we owe our lives to it?
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charlie i dont get your comment? also i edited it very slightly when i handed it to him but it was essentially the same. So now i hustle part time at my old job and im trying to do web work on the side + rap
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I had a dream that my friends couldn't get birth control for their cats and they were really concerned about this new awful law that was passed to prevent them from getting it.
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The following essay provides a wealth of perspectives and starting points for a personal investigation into the nature of time. I'd highly suggest anyone with an interest to give it a read.
http://philpapers.org/browse/husserl-time-consciousness
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Nouveau riche & vieux riche
"The prejudice can be seen to express the differences between the behaviour that keeps old money (caution, discretion) and that which gains new wealth (aggression, chance-taking)."
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