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The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price—and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get any thing without its price—is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Compensation · 1841

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“The law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“Every thing has two sides, a good and an evil. Every advantage has its tax.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?”

Bill Gates · An Open Letter to Hobbyists, 1976 · Primary source

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