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

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

Robert A. Heinlein
Pain, Effort, Birth
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

Robert A. Heinlein
Thinking, Effort, Comfort
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.394, Penguin

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