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   | Mitchell : | "Improving the breed, Doctor? Is that your line?" |  | Dehner : | "I heard that's more your specialty, Commander, line included." |  | 
| | Mitchell : | "The first thing I ever heard from upperclassmen was 'watch out for Lieutenant Kirk. In his class, you either think or sink.'" |  |  | to Kirk | 
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   | Kirk : | "You? Spinoza?" |  | Mitchell : | "Once you get into him, he's rather simple though. Childish, almost. I don't agree with him at all." |  | 
| | Dehner : | "No one's been hurt, have they? Don't you understand? A mutated superior man could also be a wonderful thing! The forerunner of a new and better kind of human being!" |  |  | to Kirk | 
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| | Kirk : | "Did you hear him joke about compassion? Above all else a 'god' needs compassion!" |  |  | to Dehner; regarding Mitchell | 
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