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• We once were as you are. Spears and arrows. There came a time when our weapons grew faster than our wisdom, and we almost destroyed ourselves.
  We learned from this to make a rule during all our travels never to cause the same to happen to other worlds ....
• War isn't a good life, but it's life. -- Kirk, "A Private Little War," stardate 4211.8.
• The only solution is...a balance of power. We arm our side with exactly that much more.
  A balance of power -- the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all....
• We are none of us wise; we are all on the way to wisdom.
• I don't think we have the right or the wisdom to interfere, however a planet is evolving.
  -- Kirk, "The Omega Glory," stardate unknown....
• We all are vulnerable, in one way or another. -- Kirk, "Is There In Truth No Beauty?
  ardate 5630.7....
• No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next--if not a damn sight better.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• It's wise to know enough to not know too much.
• Killing is stupid; useless! -- McCoy, "A Private Little War," stardate 4211.8.