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I’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

George Takei

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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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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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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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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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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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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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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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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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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Cat’s are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we’re trying always to win their love.
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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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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.
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