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• Since I've seen this *several* times in this group, the actual context of the God is dead quotation of Nietzsche
  The Madman. -- Have you ever heard of the madman who on a bright morning lighte d a lantern and ran to the market-place callin out unceasingly...
• Compassion -- that's the one thing no machine ever had.
  Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them....
• McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not an escalator." -- "Friday's Child", Stardate 3497.2.
• McCoy: "Of course...a child could do it!" -- "Spock's Brain", Stardate 5431.6
• Abortion: the ultimate child abuse
• The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." -- Menciu
• Oh, call my brother back to me! I cannot play alone
  The summer comes with flower and bee,-- Where is my brother gone?...
• In the distant past Vulcans killed to win their mates.
  And they still go mad at this time. Perhaps the price they pay for having no emotions the rest of the time....
• When a child is taught ... it's programmed with simple instructions -- and at some point, if its mind develops properly, it exceeds the sum of what it was taught, thinks independently.
  -- Dr. Richard Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4731.3....