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The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s data. (Covet Quotes)
Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, I want some more? Isn’t it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods? (Covet Quotes)
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. (Covet Quotes)
My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it’s lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them (Covet Quotes)
It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't (Covet Quotes)
What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day (Covet Quotes)
We don't begin to covet with imagined things. Coveting is a very literal sin - we begin to covet with tangibles, we begin with what we see every day (Covet Quotes)
Reason progressive, instinct is complete; swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. Brutes soon their zenith reach. In ages they no more could know, do, covet or enjoy (Covet Quotes)
In divine things we must not covet to know more than God would have us know; and he has allowed us as much as is good for us (Covet Quotes)
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive (Covet Quotes)
That’s what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy (Covet Quotes)
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors (Covet Quotes)
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get (Covet Quotes)
I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man’s soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet (Covet Quotes)
You shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife? Well, how about if she goddamn covets me? What do you think about that? (Covet Quotes)
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation (Covet Quotes)
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything (Covet Quotes)
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor (Covet Quotes)
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity (Covet Quotes)
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have (Covet Quotes)
You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body (Covet Quotes)
In order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain (Covet Quotes)
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull (Covet Quotes)
Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond... But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest (Covet Quotes)
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