This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we’re not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
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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.
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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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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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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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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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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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But when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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