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He better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting lightbulb.
— Saving Private Ryan • 1998
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker sets an extravagant standard for someone being worth it. Curing disease and improving a lightbulb offer very different examples of a useful contribution, making the demand pointed and oddly practical. The passage does not identify the cost against which that person’s worth is being measured.
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