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Shakespeare Sacrificed: Or the Offering to Avarice by James Gillray The Father and Mother by Boardman Robinson depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride. Greed (or avarice) is an insatiable desire for material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions) or social value, such as status, or power.
Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an abridgment of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, with the same number of words and Webster's full definitions, but with truncated literary references and expanded ...
These three states are delusion, also known as ignorance; greed or sensual attachment; and hatred or aversion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These three poisons are considered to be three afflictions or character flaws that are innate in beings and the root of craving , and so causing suffering and rebirth .
Greed, a film by Erich von Stroheim; Greed, a film featuring Jason London; Greed, a satirical film by Michael Winterbottom; Greed, a 1999 American TV quiz show Greed (UK game show), a British television quiz show; WCW Greed, a professional wrestling pay-per-view TV show "Greed", a 1995 episode of 2point4 children
Pleonexia, sometimes called pleonexy, originating from the Greek πλεονεξία, is a philosophical concept which roughly corresponds to greed, covetousness, or avarice, and is strictly defined as "the insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others."
Illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost by Gustave Doré (1866). The spiritual descent of Lucifer into Satan, one of the most famous examples of hubris.. Hubris (/ ˈ h juː b r ɪ s /; from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris) 'pride, insolence, outrage'), or less frequently hybris (/ ˈ h aɪ b r ɪ s /), [1] describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride [2] or dangerous ...
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.It is the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States.
Greed and fear are among the animal spirits that Keynes identified as profoundly affecting economies and markets. Warren Buffett found an investing rule in acting contrary to such prevailing moods, advising that the timing of buying or selling stocks should be "fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful."