No startup disk with OS X Mountain Lion

I just bought a new MacBook Pro Retina running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2.
It did not come with any startup / 'emergency bootup' disk like previous Macs.
I have seen the site's articles on 'Internet Recovery', but Is there any way of getting the OS X software from the Apple Support site, and then burning this to a disk in case of future need?
Any advice would be appreciated.

To reinstall OS X, repair permissions..., you have Recovery HD, a special partition from where you can start pressing Command and R keys while your Mac is starting. See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
If you want to create a Mountain Lion bootable drive, first open App Store, go to Purchases tab and download Mountain Lion. Then, you can use Lion Diskmaker to create a bootable DVD or USB drive > http://liondiskmaker.com
If you don't see Mountain Lion, your Mac is using a special OS X version that it's not available in the App Store, so you can't create a bootable drive

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