“Poverty is the self's greed and increased despair.”
Ali al-Hadi (829–868) imam
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 368.
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“No greed was comparable to the appeal of self-sacrifice.”
— Avram Davidson, book Masters of the Maze
Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 10 (p. 143)
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Section 47
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
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