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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

As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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Fans Love Old Place Simplicity
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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Hero Surface
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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Bad Day Fantasy Need Peace Science Stardom
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
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
Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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Citizenship Duty Galaxy Vote
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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Age Camp Growth Myself Time Young
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
We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.
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Change Division Fear Leadership Need Passion Progression Reality
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
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
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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Food Life Order Short Sweet
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
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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Advance Believe Enjoyment History Myself Preserve Technology
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
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
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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Cancel Play Season Series
I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.
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Establishment Help Notion Public Religion Service Simplicity Thinking
You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
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Clothes Man Rape Yourself
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
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
If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.
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Ethics Faith Hurt Law Moral People Religion True Yourself
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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Human Ignorance Philosophy Pride Worst
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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Assault Freedom Liberty Ourselves Reminder
STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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Belief Future Positive Vision
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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Leadership Popular Validation
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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