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Picard: [to Sarek] "Is it logical for a Vulcan to cry?"
   
Picard: "I met him once... Many years ago, just briefly at his son's wedding. But I'll tell you it was quite a moment for a young lieutenant. Standing in the presence of such history... I was a little tongue-tied to be quite frank..."
Riker: "You... tongue-tied?"
Picard: "Indeed. After all, how does one make small talk with a man who has virtually shaped the Federation..."
   
Data: "We will start the evening with Mozart's string quartet number six. I am programmed to reproduce the individual musical styles of over three hundred concert violinists, including Heifitz, Menuhin, Grak-tay and Tataglia."
   
Picard: "Then you were emotionally affected by the music."
Sarek "That is not possible."
Picard: "You still have not answered me, Sarek. Is it logical for a Vulcan to cry?"
   
Picard: "It is wrong. A lifetime of discipline washed away, and in its place... bedlam... Nothing but bedlam. And I am helpless to prevent it! I am old! Nothing left but dry bones and dead friends. Weary, so weary."
   
Picard: "No! This weakness disgusts me! I hate it! Where is the logic? I am betrayed by desires... I want to... feel... to feel everything! But I am Vulcan. I must feel nothing. Give me back control..."
   
Picard: "Perrin... Amanda... I could have given you so much more. I wanted to show you tenderness. But it is not our way. Spock... Amanda did you know... ? Perrin, can you know...
how much I... love you? I do love you!"
   
Sarek "I will take my leave of you now, Captain. I do not think we shall meet again."
Picard: "I hope you are wrong, Ambassador."
Sarek "We shall always retain the best part of the other inside us."
Picard: "I believe I got the best part of that bargain, Ambassador. Peace and long life, Sarek."
Sarek "Live long and prosper."

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