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• DEATH WISH: The only wish that always comes true, whether or not one wishes it to.
• When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
  -- W. H. Aude...
• B'Ijik: "Greetings, Captain. I regret to inform you that Gowron and the High Council are quite busy and won't be able to speak with you today.
  Picard: "Is Gowron aware that we have been transmitting messages for the past three days?...
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• Penguin Trivia #46: Animals who are not penguins can only wish they were.
• The most egotistical person we've ever heard of is the one who remarked that he had only been wrong once in his life and that was when he thought he was wrong but wasn't.
• Who is John Galt? Do you know the legend of Atlantis?
  ... The Isles of the Blessed ... Atlantis was a place where hero spirits lived in a happiness unknown to the rest of the world....
• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -- W. H. Aude
• Yar: "Captain Jean-Luc Picard, I wish I could say you've been like a father to me, but I've never had one so I don't know what it feels like.
  But if there was one person in this universe who I would choose to be like, someone who I would want to make proud of me, it's you....