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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.

George Takei

I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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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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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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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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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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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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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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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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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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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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We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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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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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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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
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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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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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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 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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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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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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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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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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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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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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