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“There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Source: Starship Troopers

“What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.”

Effort Pride Birth Prejudice Accidents Sweat Brows

Author:Robert Breault

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

“Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.”

Children Matter Spirit Born Church Effort Birth Barren Exertion Spirit Of God

Book:Commentary on Galatians

Source: Commentary on Galatians

“The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth.”

Source: Gesammelte Abhandlungen

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Important Life Is Effort Moral Judging Products Personality Birth Degrees Tasks Moral Failure

Author:Erich Fromm

“Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.”

Men Pain Hurt Effort Birth Tired Infant Sweating

Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Pain Life Is Values Effort Birth Breaths

Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.”

Humans Long Stills Moments Stories Stars Effort Birth Passionate Disaster Tragic Lasting Host Galaxy Here And There Unimportant Barren Casualties

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value”

Pain Life Is Values Perfect Effort Birth Cost All Things Ultimate Breaths Devotion Best Things Sweat Things In Life Agony Best Things In Life

Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.”

Motivational Results Effort Wise Birth Yoga

Author:Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.”

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson