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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. -- Jack Kemp
Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life. -- William J. Clinton
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime. -- Saint Ignatius
You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. -- Timothy Noah
Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort. -- Tammy Bruce
As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking. -- Josh McDowell
In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded. -- Esther Dyson
As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts. -- Jack Abramoff
When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law. -- Daniel Cudmore
The reward of eternal life requires effort. -- Thomas S. Monson
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. -- Jim Rohn
Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be. -- Seth Godin
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. -- Napoleon Hill
There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk. -- Nora Roberts
The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it. -- Antonin Sertillanges
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality. -- Nelson Goodman
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion. -- Emily Dickinson
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it. -- Murasaki Shikibu
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love bordering on madness. -- Steven Saylor

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