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• He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
  The way it functioned was very interesting. When the DRINK button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well....
• I am not quite sure how to tell you this, but there is so much plastic out there in this society in which you and I live that genuine immitation vinyl-naugahyde leopard skin has become an endangered species.
  -- Lily Tomli...
• A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferso
• Genuine Ploduct. Made in Flance by Pielle Caldin-san.
• The bottle is made of the best shatterproof plastic. It can't be broken.
• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
  -- Alan Wa...
• Many books require no thought from those who read them, for a very simple reason- they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
  Those works, therefore, are the most valuable that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation....
• In a Democracy, decisions are made by a majority. Not by a majority of the people, but by a majority of that minority enfranchised to vote.
  Not just those who can vote. The minority is made up entirely of those who do vote, and that is quite a minority indeed that makes the decisions for a Democracy....
• McCoy: "Here, give me. Now, you open this one." Kirk
  I'm almost afraid to. What is it? Klingon aphrodisiacs?...