Related:

• Captain, I'm beginning to understand why you Earthmen enjoy gambling.
  No matter how carefully one computes the odds of success, there is still a certain exhilaration in the risk....
• Earthment like Rameses, Alexander, Ceasar, Napoleon, Hitler, Lee Kuan.
  Your whole Earth history is made up of men seeking absolute power....
• Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the same mistakes.
  -- John Gill, "Patterns of Force," stardate 2534.7....
• The problem with the Nazis wasn't simply that their leaders were the evil, psychotic men they were.
  But the main problem, I think was the leader principle....
• After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
• Reputations are fine up to a point. After that they become a pain! -- D. Jua
• There are certain things men must do to remain men.
  -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer," stardate 4929.4....
• There are certain universal ideas and concepts common to all intelligent life.
  This device [the universal translator] instantaneously compares the frequency of brain wave patterns, selects those ideas and concepts it recognizes, and then provides the necessary grammar....
• ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage.
  From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent....