Greed

Habsucht,/. avidity greed, hachieren, v.t. hatch, shade. 

In this latest scheme, Farben s greed was no longer satisfied by the spoils of one country at a time. The document was called "The New Order for France," but "Europe" appeared in it more often than "France" and its ramifications reached out boldly into every area in the world. A file-memo of one of the Farben... 

Whether Wells s novel affected Soddy as much as Soddy s Interpretation of Radium influenced Wells is impossible to determine, but Soddy s move into monetary theory in the postwar period was, in some ways, already implicit in his alchemical vision of the new science.8 Modem alchemy—the atomic science of transmutation, with all its alchemical connections to spiritual systems, gold, and even greed—that Soddy had been exploring in his pre-War writings may have helped turn this Nobel Prize-winning chemist into what was commonly called a money crank. ... 

I am glad to think it is all unchanged, said the mother with a sigh of content. I know it is foolish to feel as I do about it, but it would be a real grief to me to think that my beautiful valley had been sacrificed to the need or the greed of advancing civilization. ... 

And even before their ultimate ascension, his true disciples had the capacity to rid themselves of the taint of original sin and reach toward spiritual perfection and eternal life. But to attain such moral purity, they must be prepared to overcome terrible ordeals that would be strewn in their path. Only seventy-two Masons could achieve the first grade, forty-eight the second, and so on up to the final grade, where a dozen immortals would eventually reign forever as spiritual rulers of the world. Masons must realize, however, that the devils necromancers were constantly at work to divert them from this true path with temptations—earthly greed and cupidity. As a rule of thumb, they should trust spirits whose names ended in er, and shun those whose names ended in el. ... 

Alchemy approaches universality, as long as we understand it in its most ample terms as the production of a noble substance (most often gold) from the transformation of baser substances (most often base metals). But the trick will be to discover what, precisely, about alchemy is universal. If it is not gold, then is it greed Marx teaches us that when money has become fully abstracted in capitalism, it is... 

Zaratite Emerald greed cubic crystals density 2.6 g/cm insoluble in water soluble in ammonia and dilute acids. 

A psychologist develops a theory that states of mind (anger, suspicion, greed) are thermodynamic states of a region of the brain that can be considered a system... 

The brain is a thermodynamic system. The mind is a thermodynamic single valued function because it depends only on the states of the system. It means that mind is a function of anger, suspicion, greed. Mathematically... 

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