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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

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
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
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
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
I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.
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Aware Citizenship Life Passion Theatre
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.
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Difference Diversity Face Humanity Ourselves Wonder
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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Food Life Order Short Sweet
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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Block Need Theatre Time Yourself
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
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
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
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
As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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Fans Love Old Place Simplicity
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
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
Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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Citizenship Duty Galaxy Vote

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