The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of DIAMONDS at midnight. PROVIDED they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to KNOW. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was REWARDED.
I had ALMOST forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the PARLIAMENT House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen NOTHING else in England but this, I should have THOUGHT my journey thither amply REWARDED.
Individual writers can certainly make a difference, but they are working within a SYSTEM, an institution, that still HOLDSTREMENDOUS power over whose voices are HEARD and whose voices are REWARDED.
Stephen's belief was that if you were free to do your ABSOLUTEBEST work, you would be rewarded. My belief was that if you GAVE all of yourself to what you BELIEVED was right, then that would be enough.
I believe that poverty is OFTEN the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of SCHOOL, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common DECENCY requires that we take care of the least of these.
BAD news: Complainers are rewarded for COMPLAINING. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how LOUDLY they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.