Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.
– Jennifer Ryan
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- To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think of. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs. – Stephen Richards
- For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. – Aldous Huxley
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- In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature. – CG Jung
- What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others. – Dada Bhagwan
- Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. – Idries Shah
- Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed. – Idries Shah
- The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless. – Israel M Kirzner
- Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
- If your desire for ‘good’ is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. – Idries Shah
- The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness. – Billy Graham
- We all have to feed the greed of other people until we find people to feed our greed and life goes on. – Neymat Khan
- Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful. – Debasish Mridha
- And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable. – Mariano Ngan
- It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order – and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. – Douglas R Hofstadter
- Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways. – Richie Norton
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- Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations. – Jay McInerney
- Silence is where my demons lurk, taunting me endlessly day after day until the end of time…yet still I wait, revelling in their company… – Virginia Alison
- There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Courage is not the absence of Fear, but the ability to act in spite of fear! – Harrish Sairaman
- Courage is the willingness to act in spite of fear. – Michael Hyatt
- There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap – Kirtida Gautam
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- Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don’t be a courage thief. – Benjamin Lotter
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- A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone. – Julien Gracq
- The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind. – Mehmet Murat ildan
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- The fire of revival that destroys all principalities and powers also defeats and demolishes the oppressor -“ the devil – Sunday Adelaja