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** GreedMakesYouDumb: Sometimes greed can lead to loss of profits.
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* {{Mammon}}: A demonic PublicDomainCharacter associated with {{Greed}}.
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* PlayingTheFamilyCard: Yeah I treat you like crap, but you have to help me because we're ''family''.

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* PlayingTheFamilyCard: Yeah Yeah, I treat you like crap, but you have to help me because we're ''family''.
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* PlayingTheFamilyCard: Yeah I treat you like crap, but you have to help me because we're ''fanily''.

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* PlayingTheFamilyCard: Yeah I treat you like crap, but you have to help me because we're ''fanily''.''family''.
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* PlayingTheFamilyCard: Yeah I treat you like crap, but you have to help me because we're ''fanily''.
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* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Someone likes having a HopelessSuitor and prevents them from getting into other relationships, but doesn't actually want to be with the suitor.

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* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Someone likes having a HopelessSuitor and prevents them from getting into other relationships, but doesn't You want out of our relationship? Tough! So what if I don't actually want to be with the suitor.love you?
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-->-- '''[[Creator/Maya Angelou]]'''

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-->-- '''[[Creator/Maya Angelou]]'''
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-->-- '''Maya Angelou'''

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-->-- '''Maya Angelou'''
'''[[Creator/Maya Angelou]]'''
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* SpitefulGluttony: Mmmm, this is so tasty! Too bad I'm not giving you any.
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* UngratefulBastard: I don't care if you helped me, I will not return you the favor!
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* FairWeatherFoe: I mistreated you earlier, but I expect you to help me out now because I'm acting nice to you.
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* IndividualityIndex

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* IndividualityIndexIndividualityIndex: "I don't NEED any of you. I can do this all by myself and I'd be better of for it!"
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* IndividualityIndex
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* NotInMyBackyard: I'd like that thing to be built...just not near me!

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* NotInMyBackyard: I'd like that thing to be built... just not near me!



* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: I'm not dying here - take this guy instead, he's less important than me!

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* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: I'm not dying here - take here—take this guy instead, he's less important than me!
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* GirlbossFeminist: A female character, usually a HighPoweredCareerWoman, and often TokenGirl, who uses the language of feminism, but doesn't live up to it in practice.
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* MurderByInaction: I didn't care that that person needed my help, so I chose to let them die instead of saving their life.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: I'm the boss around here, and the only thing that's important is increasing my own profits!

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: I'm the boss around here, and the only thing that's important is increasing my own profits!profits, no matter how many people I have to step on or laws I have to break to do so!

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* BystanderSyndrome: Let the cops get the robber. I've got better things to do than to do their job.

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* BystanderSyndrome: Let the cops get the robber. I've got better things to do than being concerned about someone else's problems which doesn't matter to do their job.me anyway.
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* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: I'm not dying here - take this guy instead, he's less important than me!
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* HomeworkSlave: I don't feel like doing my homework, so ''you'' do it for me, or else!
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* NoSympathy: I don't care about your problems!
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* GreedyTelevangelist: Televangelists are OnlyInItForTheMoney.
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* FrivolousSummoning: I need you to do this annoying chore for me that I probably could have done myself, that's more important than whatever you were doing.

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* FrivolousSummoning: I need you to do this annoying chore for me that I probably could have done myself, that's myself. It's more important than whatever you were doing.
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* DudeWheresMyReward You're giving me, and only me, everything I deserve for breaking my backs!

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* DudeWheresMyReward You're giving me, and only me, everything I deserve for breaking my backs!back!
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* DudeWheresMyRespect I deserve every one inch of admiration!
* DudeWheresMyReward You're giving me, and only me, everything I deserve for breaking my backs!
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* LousyLoversAreLosers: Selfish people are bad in bed because they don't care for the pleasure of their partner.
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* ThinkOfTheChildren: The media must be censored because I'm a puritan dirtbag who's too lazy to bother monitoring what I let my kids watch, and I don't give a crap if those who don't share my views think I'm ruining entertainment for them!

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* ThinkOfTheChildren: The media must be censored to the fullest extent because I'm a puritan dirtbag who's too lazy to bother monitoring what I let my kids watch, and I don't give a crap if those who don't share my views think I'm ruining entertainment for them!
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* ThinkOfTheChildren: The media must be censored because I'm a puritan dirtbag who's too lazy to bother monitoring what I let my kids watch, and I don't give a crap if those who don't share my views think I'm ruining entertainment for them!
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* FalseFriend: The only reason I ever hang out with you or tolerate your company is because you're just a gullible lonely sap, who I can easily manipulate to get whatever I want.!

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* FalseFriend: The only reason I ever hang out with you or tolerate your company is because you're just a gullible lonely sap, who I can easily manipulate to get whatever I want.!want!
* FrivolousSummoning: I need you to do this annoying chore for me that I probably could have done myself, that's more important than whatever you were doing.

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