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James Thurber Cartoonist, Author
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"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."

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Ming-Dao Deng Author
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"We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success."

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Rowan Williams Theologian
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"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."

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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
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"The liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the laboring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they going backwards fast."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto just order and proportion. Let speculative reasoners dispute, how far this beneficent being extends his care, and whether he prolongs our existence beyond the grave, in order to bestow on virtue its just reward, and render it fully triumphant."

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