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Acquisitive

adjective

Eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas. "An acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"

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"Acquisitive" Quotes from Famous Books

... only is it true that the subordination of our affairs to this spirit of gain placed our world in the hands of a peculiar, acquisitive, uncreative, wary type of person, and that the mass of people hate serving the spirit of gain and are forced to do so through the obsession of the whole community by this idea of Private Ownership, but it is also true that even now the real driving force that gets the world along is not that spirit ...

— New Worlds For Old - A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • Herbert George Wells

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