It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

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But even a medicine man like myself has to have some money, because you force me to live in your make-believe world where I can't get along without it.

~ John Lame Deer

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In a world where people are too languid to make something of themselves out of effort, I sell them hope. What they do with it is up to them. Invariably they drink it and then hurl it down a gutter, but that’s their choice and their freedom. I won’t judge them.

~ E.a.a. Wilson

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I am chaos eternal. I desire everything this world and the next offers. I am greed, I am hunger. Oh how I hunger... I want the pathetic mortals of this world to bow before me. I want all that they own, all they desire, every marvelous creation of theirs, but there is only one thing in this world that I need, and that, Muse, is you.

~ Pippa Dacosta

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