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.

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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 ... just as a man
must grow in his own way and his own time.
-- Kirk, "A Private Little War," stardate 4211.8.

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