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And greed and hubris are intimately intertwined when it comes to recklessness.
It was the greed and recklessness that led to the drilling explosion.
I think we still harbor instincts that can erupt in violence, like greed, tribalism, revenge, dominance, sadism.
And yes there’d still be paper money, so there’d still be paper greed, and the paper piggy bankers pocketing more than they need, purchasing the potpourri to pepper their paper properties, others live in poverty and ain’t acknowledged properly.
We have delivered live pigs to Kenya's parliament as a symbol of our politicians' greed.
This could become practically relevant, not just as a metaphor for greed, but as an illustration of what happens if you create a powerful optimization process and give it misconceived or poorly specified goals.
I've heard one expert say that trafficking happens where need meets greed.
Throughout the ages, religion has been used to oppress others, and this is because of human ego, human greed.
But fear, curiosity and greed have driven us.
It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.
In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back.
And competition rules can do a similar thing in the market, making sure that greed and fear doesn't overcome fairness.
It tells the story of Lauren Oya Olamina as she makes her way through a near-future California, ruined by corporate greed, inequality, and environmental destruction.
Under this economic logic, greed is good, widening inequality is efficient, and the only purpose of the corporation can be to enrich shareholders, because to do otherwise would be to slow economic growth and harm the economy overall.
Rule four: greed is not good.
But upon seeing the sleeping princess, his greed fell away.
People have found that when they have implemented the Golden Rule as Confucius said, "all day and every day," not just a question of doing your good deed for the day and then returning to a life of greed and egotism, but to do it all day and every day, you dethrone yourself from the center of your world, put another there, and you transcend yourself.
It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.
He had said, "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."
They didn't have to worry about company politics or greed or fear.
Man with the Screaming Brain is a story of greed, betrayal and revenge in the a small Bulgarian town.
A satire about greed and money, what?
There is more greed in the intentions behind this fiasco than in any of the themes they pathetically try to make fun of.
While this movie was a statement of corporate greed and the plight of the worker who gets stepped on when a large company goes under, the vehicle for this would have been better served another way.
This is meant to be a moment of great tragedy and pathos, as Ma finally realizes how she's destroyed her family out of her own greed, but instead, it provokes laughter.
Heart of Darkness, a short novel written by Joseph Conrad about greed, corruption, and traveling through Africa was, to say the least, a tedious read.
A lot of the elements of the story are consistent between the book and the movie, but Dr. Ross' character goes from a creatively written character who lives for money and ends up causing the volcanic eruption with her greed to a heart-on-her-sleeve damsel in distress who won't do anything if she even catches the slightest hint that it might be less than noble.
Like Batman, Wild Thing's parents were murdered in front of him, leaving him to fend for himself in 'The Zone,' a corrupt section of an unnamed city where greed and violence reign supreme.
A very interesting documentary - certainly a lot more than Sideways, a pseudo wino drama - where the capitalist conspiracy is revealed in all its greed.
There are several experiences of personal growth in this movie and while the characters ARE still very human even the lessons learned are not that greed will profit you, or do-unto-others-whatever-you-want-as-long-as-you-are-okay-with-it, no, this is what our sad, desensitized lives need, more sense... more love... more do-unto-others-as-you-would-have-done-unto-you... more HOPE.
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