"If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect."
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"Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward."
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"Money is one of the rewards you get for adding value to the lives of others."
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"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
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"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
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"The reward of pain is experience."
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"Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built."
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"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office."
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"The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself."
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"Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward."
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"A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones"
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"Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself."
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"I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing."
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"You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards."
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"if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one."
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"I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
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"The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them."
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
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"My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization."
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