Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

Orson Scott Card
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  2. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. - Dorothy Day

  3. Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. - Ruth Reichl

  4. The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers..of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few,... - Allan Bloom

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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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