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.
GEORGE TAKEIWhat’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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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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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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Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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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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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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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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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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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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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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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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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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