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• You Get Used To Those Things...
• This is loneliness? What a bitter thing ... it's so sad.
  How do you bare it, this loneliness? -- Commissioner Nancy Hedford/The Companion, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3220....
• You [humans] are, after all, essentially irrational. -- Spock, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3220.3
• Velveeta is just another word for disgusting!
• That's [growing old] been happening to men and women for a long time.
  I've got the feeling it's one of the pleasanter things about being human, as long as you grow old together....
• I never play the opening rounds anyway, inconsequential.
  Besides, there are much better things to negotiate on this ship....
• 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....
• Blast medicine anyway! We've learned to tie into every organ in the human body but one.
  The brain! The brain is what life is all about. -- McCoy, "The Menagerie," stardate 3012.4....
• Quote #681 In mathematics you don't understand things.
  You just get used to them. -- J. von Neuma...