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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.

George Takei

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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Connection Imagination Leadership Purpose Society
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
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
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
STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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Belief Future Positive Vision
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
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
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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Food Life Order Short Sweet
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
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
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
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
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Active Blessing Body Busy Career Myself
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

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