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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

George Takei

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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Camp Identity Myself Realization Shame
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem
As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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Fans Love Old Place Simplicity
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
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
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
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
We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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Administration Division Each Other Try
The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.
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Adversity Character Equality Faith Mindset People
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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Leadership Popular Validation
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
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
There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.
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Character Fantasy Story
I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
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
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

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