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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.

George Takei

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
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
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
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
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
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
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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Food Life Order Short Sweet
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
If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
GEORGE TAKEI

Connection Imagination Leadership Purpose Society
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
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
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
Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.
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Act Action Strike Terrorism Tragedy War
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
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

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