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If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

George Takei

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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Cancel Play Season Series
What’s needed today, now, more than ever, is ‘Star Peace’ for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It’s called ‘Twilight’. And it is really, really bad.
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Bad Day Fantasy Need Peace Science Stardom
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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Hero Surface
If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
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Ethics Faith Hurt Law Moral People Religion True Yourself
We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.
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Difference Diversity Face Humanity Ourselves Wonder
Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
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Alone Break Friendship Home Myself
My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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Camp Childhood Memories Myself
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem
I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
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Chapter Democracy Glory History Learning Thinking Time
We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.
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Change Division Fear Leadership Need Passion Progression Reality
I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.
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Establishment Help Notion Public Religion Service Simplicity Thinking
Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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Ancient Animal Cat Funny Social Media Wall Worship Writing
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
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Camp Machine Myself Normal Remember Time
I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.
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Aware Citizenship Life Passion Theatre
Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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Citizenship Duty Galaxy Vote
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
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Camp Life Myself People
I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I’m not going anywhere, and I won’t be silenced.
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Action Myself Politics President Silence Word
Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
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Blood Certain Father Goodness Ideal People Suffering Understand
Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.
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Act Action Strike Terrorism Tragedy War
Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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Content Greatness Interest Social Media User
Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.
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Belief Difference Humanity Rich Separate True
I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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Appearance Greatness Marathon Myself Run Time
Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that’s what’s going to keep us moving ahead.
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Economics Head Hope Move Planet Suffering
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
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Achievement Country Failure Glory Ideal Important Nation
Cat’s are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we’re trying always to win their love.
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Cat Innocence Love Moments Prediction Win
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
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Diversity Earth Enterprise Stardom Strength Vision

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