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...rapid self-enrichers seem to be motivated by greed. It seems more likely that they recognize "money, pur et simple," in Bagehot's phrase, as the shortest, speediest route to public recognition, self-esteem and power-or, simply, security in a threatening world...
Dickens' story takes place in Coketown, where workers spend 14 hours a day in the factories and the rest of the time in their grim hovels. The owners clothe their greed in the high-toned words of utilitarianism, the philosophy of the time: what works is good, and good is what works...
...missed out, or forgot." It takes Mr. Sleary (Harry Markham), the disreputable owner of a circus, and Sissy (Michelle Dibnah), the daughter of a clown, to explain the lessons of dreams and imagination. Hard Times is the story of Louisa's slow tutelage - against the backdrop of Victorian greed and despair...
...deigned to look at their discovery until after 1551 when the wool market in Antwerp fell apart. The first plantations were get-rich-quick schemes, the colonists left to fend for themselves if they did not produce a quick return on investment. Occasionally, as the book amply illustrates, the greed was enlivened by some remarkable characters, like the 18th century Governor of New York, Lord Cornbury, a flaming transvestite who prowled his fort in women's finery...
Throughout his book, Dawkins writes as though genes are conscious entitites possessing human characteristics such as greed, selfishness, intelligence, and cunning. He says...