Jean-Luc Picard Quotes

• “Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.”

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• “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.”

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• “Things are only impossible until they are not.”

  Jean-Luc Picard

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• “The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.”

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• “Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal.”

  Jean-Luc Picard

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• “If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.”

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• “PICARD: Did you read that book I gave you? (Wesley reacts, barely concealing a grimace as he recalls.)
  WESLEY: Some of it.
  PICARD: That's reassuring.
  WESLEY: I just don't have much time.
  PICARD: (re the book in his hand) There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. (Wesley glances over at Picard's book)
  WESLEY: William James sure won't be on my Starfleet exams.
  PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained to deal with technology, and the mechanics of piloting a starship.
  WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy--
  PICARD: It takes more than just that. Open your mind to the past... to history, art, philosophy. And then... (re: the stars) ...this will mean something.
  (Wesley considers this, almost embarrassed as he realizes Picard does truly care about him.)
  Then: PICARD (continuing) Just consider James' wisdom: "Philosophy... is not a technical matter... it is our sense of what life honestly means... our individual way of feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos."
  (then) That's what I want for you.
  
  From:
  STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
  "Samaritan Snare" #40272-143
  Written by Robert L. McCullough”

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• “You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose.”

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