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• The only tool diplomacy has is language. -- Hodin of Gideon, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.
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• Most people are afraid of being alone. -- Kirk, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.4.
• What is it like to feel pain? It is like ... when you see that people have no hope of happiness .
  .. you feel great despair ... your heart is heavy because you know you can do nothing ....
• We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.
  -- Spock, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.4....
• Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.
  -- Gideon J. Tucke...
• Diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they achieve exactly the same results.
  -- Spock, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.4....
• Life is sometimes hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other.
  To fail to love it is to cease to exist....
• So, what's with this guy Gideon, anyway? And why can't he ever remember his Bible?