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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

George Takei

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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Busy Different Hard Hate Laughter Togetherness Yourself
I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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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
We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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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’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.
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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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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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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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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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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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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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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

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