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• Goulden's Axiom of the Bouncing Can: If you drop a full can of bee
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• Barclay: "Lieutenant Barclay to Captain Picard, you can fire photon torpedoes, maximum yield, full spread.
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• FPT: Fire Photon Torpedoe
• Submariners use their torpedoes.
• Skowie: [pumped full of lead by a passing motorcyclist, lying in a pool of his own blood] Damn, damn damn.
  McBain? McBain: Yes? Skowie: I'm not going to make it....
• Picard: "Mister LaForge, ahead warp six." LaForge: "Aye, sir, full impulse.
  -- "Conspiracy", Stardate unknow...
• When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them.
  -- _Dune_, by Frank Herbe...
• All of our institutions must now turn their full intention to the great task ahead -- to humanize our lives and thus to humanize our society.
  -- James Perki...