Deserving and Earning

No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

Odo The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Context: Quoting Odo, the philosopher whose teachings founded the anarchist civilization on Anarres.

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Source: Chapter 11

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