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Riker: "I was trying to feed Spot."
Beverly: "Data's cat!"
Riker: "I told him I'll feed him while he's gone. Was putting down the bowl of food, the next thing I know is hissing ball of fur coming at my face. I hate cats."
Beverly: "I love cats."
   
Geordi: "Captain, I think this is gonna work, but .. it's gonna take some time."
Picard: "Well, Mister LaForge. It seem that time is something we have plenty of."
   
Data: [to Picard] "Captain, I believe I found the cause of the power surge. There is a warp core breach in progress."
   
Data: "Come in."
Riker: [Riker looks around from the doorstep] "Where's that cat of yours?"
Data: "Spot is sleeping, sir. Why do you ask?"
Riker: "No reason."
   
Data: "I have been testing the aphorism 'A watched pot never boils.' I boiled the same amount of water in this kettle 62 times. In some cases I have ignored the kettle, in others I have watched it intently. In every instance the water reached its boiling point in precisely 51.7 seconds. It appears I am not capable of perceiving time any differently than my internal chronometer."
Riker: "Why don't you turn it off ?"
Data: "Sir ?"
Riker: "Data, people do not have internal chronometers. Why don't you see what happens if you turn yours off ?"
Data: "Thank you, sir. I will try that."
Riker: "Just don't be late for your shift."
   
Picard: [Referring to one of the lecturing doctors at the conference] "He just kept talking in one, incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt... it was really quite hypnotic..."

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