“ There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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“ No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy — unless you let him. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
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“ One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ I don't apologize for taking seven Yankees. I think they all have numbers that make their choice appropriate. … I'd like to be a little greedy here. ”
- Joe Torre- Copy
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“ At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original. ”
- Edmund Husserl- Copy
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“ I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it! ”
- Tanith Lee- Copy
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“ As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. ”
- Colin Firth- Copy
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“ She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. ”
- Faith Sullivan- Copy
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“ You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. ”
- Deepak Chopra- Copy
- 320
“ We can fill each day with grasping or with giving; with griping or with gratitude. ”
- William A. Ward- Copy
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“ Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ”
- George Bancroft- Copy
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“ Corrupt, stupid, grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish, and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan. ”
- George Voinovich- Copy
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“ It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything. ”
- Laurel Lee- Copy
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“ The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how… ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him… ”
- Zen Poem- Copy
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