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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Language Principles Generation Interpretation
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Intellectual Sevility Power Betray
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Popular Propaganda Pressure Helpless
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Education Self-fulfilment Environment Explore
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Terminal Existence Democracy Ideals
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Propaganda Democracy Bludgeon Totalitarian
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Justification Cultural Deficit Survival
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Increase Drug Crime Immigrants
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Resistance Detest Reality Hegemony
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Honored Bible Prophets Jailed
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I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

England Four Least Once
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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

Time Grew Camps Know
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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.

Towers Normal Part Camp
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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

Active Blessed Career Civic
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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.

Share Part Life People
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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.

Keep Order Failed Ideals
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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.

Step Exploit System People
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Season Series Close Movies
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I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood.

Acting Blessed Career Good
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I do think that Japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.

Nations Example Serve Equality
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Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor

Parent Teach School
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The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.

Best Connect Heart Issue
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Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

Communication Human Largest Factor
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It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in very tiny letters, 'aka George Takei.' I don't protest the inevitable.

Protest Large Lies Very
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On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of the city. It's a wonderful way to get to know the city.

Open Absorb Magic City
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I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what contex.

People Change Bones Cell
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I'm an actor. I love acting and being able to use my love, my passion, to also contribute to making this a better society, a better democracy, and a better country.

Country Better Society Passion
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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Come Happens Itself Make
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Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.

Stop Least Desire Strong
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You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Played Development Result
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In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

Truly Equal Laws Fired
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I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift that's been given to me - access to the media - as positively as I can.

Access Activist Been Gift
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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Dirty Face Fall Flat
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I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.

Appreciate Judging Invading
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They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!

Audience Best Better Critics
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Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.

People Families Society Training
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People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns.

Life Full People Turns
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I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
I Me
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I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

Comedy Funny Good Humor
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Accomplished Began Beginning Each
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It is okay for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.
Me Okay Feel Angry
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Parent Little Given
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

Cannot Think You
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I am me and I am okay.
I Am Okay
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The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

Gift Hear Touch Person
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If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

Go Heat Stand Summer
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Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

Threaten Promise Convenient Pay
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Deal Go Just Life
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A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

Friend Business Bosom Fellow
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Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

Easy Hard Impossible
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