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41 " Most thing worth doing come with their fair share of risks "
― Kirsten Beyer , Children of the Storm (Star Trek: Voyager)
42 " My mother used to say that the gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own future. "
― Kirsten Beyer , The Eternal Tide
43 " Balancing security against the values we hold dear requires commitment. "
― Kirsten Beyer , Atonement (Star Trek: Voyager)
44 " I didn’t realize you were a man of faith.” “My people have a rich spiritual heritage,” Chakotay said. “I spent many years refusing to appreciate it, but, like most truths, it found me eventually and held me. "
― Kirsten Beyer , Acts of Contrition (Star Trek: Voyager)
45 " We may succeed, but if we lose what is best in us in the process, what have we won? "
― Kirsten Beyer , Full Circle (Star Trek: Voyager)
46 " Civilizatons rise and fall. History has taught us that this is the way of things "
47 " It isn’t what we lose that defines us. It’s what we refuse to release.” Janeway "
― Kirsten Beyer , Protectors (Star Trek: Voyager)
48 " The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.” —ROBERT E. LEE "
49 " It's a pity so few of us are allowed to chose thectime and manner of our death "
50 " To ask any parent to suffer the loss of a child is to ask more than any parent can possibly give. But to deny any individual the right to walk the path they have chosen, because we cannot imagine our lives without them, carries a heavy price. You have never known this because you have never faced this choice. You’ve never had to sacrifice anything, because of your power to alter reality to suit your whims. I understand this truth. We mortals have tried to soften it in platitudes. ‘The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.’ ‘Death before dishonor.’ In the end, nothing makes it easier to accept. I’ve given my life once for those I love, and I’m about to do it again. To have made any other choice was to grant fear dominion. Your son is a remarkable individual. Don’t ask him to be less than he is. He has made his choice. "
51 " The ability to admit that you do not know is the surest indication of your enduring strength "
52 " Chakotay watched its progress with equal amounts of fear and anger. Self-sacrifice was hard-wired into Kathryn Janeway. It was her greatest strength and most inconvenient weakness. It was also one they shared. "
53 " he blessed again the gods of his fathers for bringing Kathryn back to him. He refused to think too far ahead. He’d already learned that to live in the future was folly, especially when the present held everything for which he could ask. "
54 " I know I haven’t ‘taken a step back or retreated from a better future. "
55 " Faith is not a crime. Blind obedience should be. Too many years wasted in strict adherence to fabricated laws could damn a religion to oblivion. "
56 " Are we really going to have to do this the hard way?" Farkas sighed."Going forward, may I suggest that designation be restricted only to operations that include arming our self-destruct mechanism while inside an alien vessel?" Commander Roach asked. "
57 " Ambassador Garak is having a field day with the press at my expense, and while that just means it's probably Tuesday again, it never does much for my mood. "
58 " One may grow complacent, but even in peace the spirit stirs. "
59 " Once in a while, it’s going to be us or them. "
60 " Powers rise and fall. Leaders come and go. History makes a mockery of our best-laid plans, in the end, you aare left with thosecthings you have shared with one another "