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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.

George Takei

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
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
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
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
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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Democracy Manipulation Participation People System
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
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
I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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Appearance Greatness Marathon Myself Run Time
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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You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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Clothes Man Rape Yourself
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Capacity Confidence Innovation Invention Problem
We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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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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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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