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Kirk: "Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over "I love you."
   
Edith Keeler: "One day soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energy -- maybe even the atom. Energy that could ultimately hurl men to other worlds in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space will find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world, and to cure their diseases. They'll be able to find a way to give each man hope and a common future. And those are the days worth living for."
   
Edith Keeler: "A lie is a very poor way to say hello."
   
Edith Keeler: "Lots of people drink from the wrong bottle sometimes."
   
Kirk: "He caught his head in a mechanical rice picker."
   
Spock: "I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins."
   
Kirk: "Let's get the hell out of here."
   
McCoy: "Do you know what you just did?!"
Spock: "He knows, Doctor...he knows."