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Julian Barnes Author
Rewards

"Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Rewards

"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."

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Boethius Philosopher, Theologian
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"All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just."

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Immanuel Wallerstein Sociologist
Rewards

"To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak."

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