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It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

George Takei

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
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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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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Leadership Popular Validation
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
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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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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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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Human Ignorance Philosophy Pride Worst
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
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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Belief Future Positive Vision
We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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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
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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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
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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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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I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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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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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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