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Data: "But is not honesty always the preferred choice?"
Picard: "Excessive honesty can be disastrous particularly in a commander."
Data: "Indeed."
Picard: "Knowing your own limitations is one thing, advertizing them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader."
   
Ard'rian: "This is the most incredible android I have ever seen."
Data: "Have you seen many?"
Ard'rian: "Actually, no. You are the first."
   
Ard'rian: "What's your memory capacity? How many operations per second? I have a million questions."
Data: "I am afraid I have not time to answer a million questions. I have a mission to accomplish."
   
Geordi: "Captain. We can do it. We can modify the transporters."
Picard: "Excellent."
Geordi: "It will take 15 years and a research team of a hundred..."
Picard: "Mister LaForge ... I believe we will postpone it."
   
Sheliak: "The law is paramount."
   
Riker: "I take it the Sheliak just hung up on us again."
   
Worf: "This is hopeless. Fighting would be preferable."
   
Gosheven: "Here we will stand."
Data: "Then here you will die."
   
Data: "That was the stun setting. This is not."
   
Data: "This is a thing. And things can be replaced. Lives cannot."
   
Riker: "I think you enjoyed that, Captain."
Picard: "You're *damned* right!"

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