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Reality:

When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records. - Vina - The Cage (TOS)

Captain Pike has illusion, and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasant. - Keeper - The Menagerie (TOS)

The semi-conscious mind is a tricky thing. A man never knows just how much is real or how much is imagination. - McCoy - Obsession (TOS)

Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality…we judge reality by the responses of our senses. Once we are convinced of the reality of a given situation, we abide by its rules. - Spock - Spectre of the Gun (TOS)

...a dream that became a reality and spread throughout the stars. - Kirk - Whom Gods Destroy (TOS)

Relationships:

Do you know about being with somebody? Wanting to be? If I had the whole universe, I'd give it to you. When I see you, I feel like I'm hungry all over. Do you know how that feels? - Charlie Evans (to Yeoman Janice Rand) - Charlie X (TOS)

You go slow, be gentle. It's no one-way street - you know how you feel and that's all. It's how the girl feels too. Don't press. If the girl feels anything for you at all, you'll know. - Kirk (to Charlie Evans) - Charlie X (TOS)

Parted from me and never parted. Never and always touching and touched. - Spock - Amok Time (TOS)

You'll learn something about men and women - the way they're supposed to be. Caring for each other, being happy with each other, being good to each other. That's what we call love. - Kirk - The Apple (TOS)

The idea of male and female are universal. - Kirk - Metamorphosis (TOS)

Is not that the nature of man and woman? That the pleasure is in the learning of each other? - Natira - For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (TOS)

Resistance:

Where did your race get this ridiculous predilection for resistance? You examine any object; you question everything. - Korob - Catspaw (TOS)

Respect:

Respect is a rational process. - McCoy - The Galileo Seven (TOS)

Rest:

On my planet, to rest is to rest - to cease using energy. To me, it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass, using energy, instead of saving it. - Spock - Shore Leave (TOS)

You might as well sit back and enjoy the ride. - Kirk - Metamorphosis (TOS)

Revenge:

To us, killing is murder, even for revenge. - Kirk - Plato's Stepchildren (TOS)

Revolution:

In every revolution, there's one man with a vision! - Kirk - Mirror, Mirror (TOS)

Rights:

I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us! - Samuel T. Cogley - Court Martial (TOS)

I don't think we have the right or the wisdom to interfere, however a planet is evolving. - Kirk - The Omega Glory (TOS)

Risk:

Risk is our business. - Kirk - Return to Tomorrow (TOS)

I'm beginning to understand why you Earthmen enjoy gambling. No matter how carefully one computes the odds of success, there is still a certain exhilaration in the risk. - Spock - Patterns of Force (TOS)

Romulan:

As a Vulcan you will study [Romulan society]. As a human, you would find ways to appreciate it. - Romulan Commander - The Enterprise Incident (TOS)

Romulan women are not like Vulcan females. We are not dedicated to pure logic and the sterility of non-emotion. - Romulan Commander - The Enterprise Incident (TOS)

Our people are warriors, often savage, but we are also many other pleasant things. - Romulan Commander - The Enterprise Incident (TOS)

Room:

A room should reflect its occupant. - Kirk - Wink of an Eye (TOS)

Rule:

We do not colonize. We conquer. We rule. There is no other way for us. - Rojan - By Any Other Name (TOS)

Sacrifice:

It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six. - Spock - The Galileo Seven (TOS)

Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice. - Kirk - Metamorphosis (TOS)

[Matt Decker] gave his life in an attempt to save others. Not the worst way to go. - Kirk - The Doomsday Machine (TOS)

Satan:

Mister Spock, do you know anyone on this ship who even remotely resembles Satan? - Kirk - The Apple (TOS)

Science:

If it is the only survivor of a dead race, to kill it would be a crime against science. - Spock - The Devil in the Dark (TOS)

Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist. - Spock - This Side of Paradise (TOS)

Possible existence of a parallel universe has been scientifically conceded. - Spock - The Alternative Factor (TOS)

In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. - Spock - Wolf in the Fold (TOS)

Scotch:

[Scotch] was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad. - Chekov - The Trouble with Tribbles (TOS)

Secrets:

Military secrets are the most fleeting of all. - Spock - The Enterprise Incident (TOS)

Senses:

These shells in which we have encased ourselves - they have such heightened senses. To feel, to hear, to smell. How do humans manage to exist in these fragile cases? - Rojan - By Any Other Name (TOS)

Ship:

Do you know the one - 'All I ask is a tall ship…and a star to steer her by…' You could feel the wind at your back, about you…the sounds of the sea beneath you. And even if you take away the wind and the water, it's still the same. The ship is yours…you can feel her…and the stars are still. - Kirk - The Ultimate Computer (TOS)

Slavery:

It's wrong to create a whole race of humans to live as slaves. - Number One - The Cage (TOS)

A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior - mentally or otherwise. - Kirk - The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS)

Our people don't believe in slavery. - Kirk - Bread and Circuses (TOS)

Space

Instruments register only those things they're designed to register. Space still contains infinite unknowns. - Spock - The Naked Time (TOS)

All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars. - Kirk - The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS)

At least we'll be away from all this openness. No, this is too strange for us. We are creatures of outer space. Soon, we will be safe in the comforting closeness of walls. - Rojan - By Any Other Name (TOS)

Sports:

Fencing tones the muscle, sharpens the eye, improves the posture. - Sulu - The Naked Time (TOS)

Stars:

All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars. - Kirk - The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS)

We could have roamed the stars together. - Dr. Janice Lester - Turnabout Intruder (TOS)

Starship:

You don't run a starship with your hands, you run it with your head. - Kirk - The Deadly Years (TOS)

Stimulation:

I'm stimulating him. - Kirk - By Any Other Name (TOS)

Struggle:

Maybe we weren't meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through... struggle, claw our way up…scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of lutes. We must march to the sound of drums. - Kirk - This Side of Paradise (TOS)

If there are self-made purgatories and we all have to live in them, mine can be no worse than someone else's. - Spock - This Side of Paradise (TOS) 

You striving, bickering, foolishly brave humans. - Apollo - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome…. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die. - Kirk - Metamorphosis (TOS)

Suffering:

A little suffering is good for the soul. - Kirk - The Corbomite Maneuver (TOS)

Superiority:

Man is ultimately superior to any mechanical device. - Kirk - The Corbomite Maneuver (TOS)

A mutated, superior man could also be a wonderful thing…the forerunner of a new and better kind of human being! - Dr. Elizabeth Dehaver - Where No Man Has Gone Before (TOS)

Survival:

Existence…survival must cancel out programming. - Ruk - What are Little Girls Made Of? (TOS)

If it is the only survivor of a dead race, to kill it would be a crime against science. - Spock - The Devil in the Dark (TOS)

I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for! 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 be able to 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 - The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS)

We found [Capellans] totally uninterested in medical aid or hospitals. They believe that only the strong should survive. - McCoy - Friday's Child (TOS)

We Klingons believe as you do; the sick should die. Only the strong should live. - Kras - Friday's Child (TOS)

If it is the only survivor of a dead race, to kill it would be a crime against science. - Spock - The Devil in the Dark (TOS)

Every living thing wants to survive. - Spock - The Ultimate Computer (TOS)

There's another way to survive: Mutual trust and help. - Kirk - Day of the Dove (TOS)

We have the right to survive. Not by killing others. - Deela and Kirk - Wink of an Eye (TOS)

Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know…. Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed by you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive. - Lal - The Empath (TOS)

Tellarites:

Tellarites do not argue for reasons; they simply argue. - Sarek - Journey to Babel (TOS)

Terror:

Women are more easily and more deeply terrified…generating more sheer horror than the male of the species. - Spock - Wolf in the Fold (TOS)

Thinking:

You could learn something from Mr. Spock and stop thinking with your glands. - Kirk - Man Trap (TOS)

Threats:

Threats are illogical. - Sarek - Journey to Babel (TOS)

Time:

Time is fluid…like a river with currents, eddies, backwash. - Spock - The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS)

The time is past. There is no room for gods. - Apollo - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

There is much time...for everything. - Miramanee - The Paradise Syndrome (TOS)

Hours can be centuries. - Vanna - The Cloudminders (TOS)

Titles:

Philosophic kings have no need of titles. - Parmen - Plato's Stepchildren (TOS)

Travel:

Crazy way to travel. Spreading a man's molecules all over the universe. - McCoy - Obsession (TOS)

Trouble:

It's the custom of my people to help one another when we're in trouble. - Kirk - The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS)

Trust:

I don't trust men who smile too much. - Kor - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

While I might trust the doctor to remove a splinter or lance a boil, I cannot trust him to replace a brain. - Spock - Spock's Brain (TOS)

There's another way to survive: Mutual trust and help. - Kirk - Day of the Dove (TOS)

Truth:

I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth. - Kirk - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

You say you are lying. But if everything you say is a lie, then you are telling the truth. You cannot tell the truth, because everything you say is a lie. You lie, you tell the truth…but you cannot, for you lie. - Norman - I, Mudd (TOS)

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself. - Spock - The Enterprise Incident (TOS)

Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth. Or by misleading the innocent. - Spock and McCoy - And the Children Shall Lead (TOS)

Is truth not truth for all? - Natira - For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (TOS)