We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness–the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

Orson Scott Card
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  2. Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

  3. You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

  4. You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

  5. Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

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