Rasmussen: "I came to thank you for answering my questions, though I probably should've asked you to limit yourself to 50000 words." Data: "You did ask me to be thorough."
	Worf: "I hate questionnaires."
	Picard: "To try or not to try. To take a risk or play it safe. Your arguments reminded me how precious the right to choose is... and because I was never the one to play it safe, I choose to try."
	Data: "I assume your handprint will open this door whether you are conscious or not."
	Rasmussen: "But you don't trust me. You should, you know." Troi: "Should I?" Rasmussen: ""Picard's empath won't trust you." That's what they all said." Troi: "Picard's empath?" Rasmussen: "We're not that unalike, you and I. You possess a sense that is foreign to the others. My knowledge of the future is similar. You know, some of my best friends are empaths... they trust me." Troi: "Why would you care whether I trust you or not?" Rasmussen: "We're birds of a feather... colleagues. We could learn a lot from each other." Troi: "You're right... I don't trust you." Rasmussen: "I knew you'd say that." Troi: "I'm sure you did."
	Picard: "I know, Professor, "What if one of those lives I save down there is a child who grows up to be the next Adolf Hitler or Khan Singh? First year philosophy students have been asked that question ever since the earliest wormholes were discovered. But this is not a class in temporal logic... It's not hypothetical, it's real. Can't you see that?"
	Picard: "A person's life, their future, hinges on each of a thousand choices. Living is making choices. Now you ask me to believe that if I make a choice other than the one found in your history books then your past will be altered! Well, perhaps I don't give a damn about your past. Because your past is my future and as far as I'm concerned, it hasn't been written yet."

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