Picard: "Phillipa Louvois, and back in uniform. It's been ten years, but seeing you again like this ... makes it seem like fifty. If we weren't around all these people, do you know what I would like to do?" Louvois: "Break a chair across my teeth?" Picard: "After that." Louvois: "Oh, make love - wonderful"
	[to Picard] Louvois: "It brings a sense of order and stability to my universe to know that you're still a pompous ass .. and a damn sexy man."
	Picard: [on Data] "He has rights!" Louvois: "All this passion over a machine?"
	Wesley: "Data, you're supposed to rip the wrapping off." Data: "With the application of a little care, Wes, the paper can be utilized again." Troi: "Data, you're missing the point." [Data rips the now unwrapped paper apart]
	Louvois: "Data is a toaster."
	Riker: [on Data] "The Commander is a physical representation of a dream, an idea conceived by the mind of a man. His purpose? To serve human needs and interests. He's a collection of neural nets and heuristic algorithms. His responses dictated by an elaborate software program written by a man. This hardware built by a man. And now .. and now a man will shut him off. Pinocchio is broken .. his strings have been cut."
	[to Picard] Guinan: "Consider that in the history of many worlds, there have always been disposable creatures. They do the dirty work."
	Data: "I would prefer not to answer that question, sir. I gave my word." Picard: "Under the circumstances, I don't think Tasha would mind." Data: "She was special to me, sir. We were ... intimate."
	Picard: "Your Honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well THERE it sits!"
	Louvois: "It is the ruling of this court that Lieutenant Commander Data has the freedom to choose."
	Maddox: "He's remarkable." Louvois: "You didn't call him 'it'."
	Riker: "You are a wise man, my friend." Data: "Not yet, sir. But with your help, I am learning."

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