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== Memorable quotes ==
"''My sandal shop is failing. I can no longer feed my family.''"<br />
"''Same old song.''"<br />
"''My wife and her mother, my five children, the baby.''"<br />
"''That's seven employees &ndash; eight, if you count the infant. How can your shop be failing?''"<br />
"''You're not paying them, are you?''"<br />
: - '''The sandal maker''', '''Arridor''', and '''Kol'''


"''What ''are'' we going to do?''"<br />
"''What a Ferengi always does in a situation this grave.''"<br />
"''Panic?''"<br />
"''No, you idiot! He goes to the Rules of Acquisition. Unabridged and fully annotated with all [[47]] commentaries, all 900 major and minor judgments, all 10,000 considered opinions. There's a rule for ''every'' conceivable situation.''"
: - '''Kol''' and '''Arridor'''


"''Grand proxy, avoidance of&hellip; Mm-mm.''"<br />
"''Grand proxy, censure by&hellip;''"<br />
"''Grand proxy, encounters with&hellip;''"<br />
"''<nowiki>See&hellip; 'hopeless situation.'</nowiki>''"<br />
: - '''Arridor''', trying to find a way around following the Grand Proxy's orders


''"I told you there was no rule.''"<br />
"''Then it's time to invoke the unwritten rule.''"<br />
"''The unwritten rule?''"<br />
"''When no appropriate rule applies&hellip; make one up.''"<br />
"''That's a very good rule.''"<br />
: - '''Arridor''' and '''Kol'''


"''Who's to say we aren't their sages, captain?''"<br />
"''Don't be ridiculous.''"<br />
"''You mean&hellip; we really are the sages?''"
: - '''Arridor''', '''Captain Janeway''', and '''Kol'''


"''We won. We won!''"<br />
"''No, my friend. Not exactly. To be precise&hellip; we won again.''"<br />
: - '''Kol''' and '''Arridor'''


"''But how do we get two Ferengi to just walk away from a monopoly on an entire economy?''"<br />
"''What motivates a Ferengi?''"<br />
"''Profit.''"<br />
"''Then we must find a way to make it more profitable for them to leave.''"<br />
"''Or less profitable to stay.''"<br />
"''How do we do that?''"<br />
"''We have to out-Ferengi&hellip; the Ferengi.''"<br />
: '''Tom Paris''', '''Captain Janeway''', '''Tuvok''', and '''Neelix''', about the plot with Neelix pretending to be Grand Proxy


"''And may I say gentlemen, you both have very fine shoes.''"<br />
"''Excuse me?''"<br />
"''Well, the sages say you can tell a great deal about a man from his shoes, and I can tell from your shoes, you're men of refinement.''"
: - '''Merchant''', to '''Tom Paris''' and Chakotay


"''Arridor?''"<br />
"''What is it now?''"<br />
"''We had ''seven years'' of pure profit.''"<br />
(laughing) "''We did, didn't we?''"
: - '''Kol''' and '''Arridor''', while being burned