And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

John Steinbeck
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  2. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi

  3. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann

  4. If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. - Jasper Fforde

  5. It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. - Diogenes Of Sinope

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  3. Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

  4. Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

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