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

-- Orson Scott Card

#Real Quotes #Issues Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.”
“War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.”
“Life is too short to wonder where you hid your waffle maker.”
“That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.”
“Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.”
“Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.”
“You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.”
“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”

Source : Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

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