And greed and hubris are intimately intertwined when it comes to recklessness.

Greed, avarice, and envy were among the deadly sins.

Well, greed has to be balanced with a certain amount of fear and that's what down payment rules were all about.

Instead, the task of corrupting a centuries old humanistic tradition has fallen to the Chinese Communist Party s ignoble censor in chief and engineer of China s literary exodus and to the greed of some for Chinese gold.