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Apologizing is a modern plague, and I'd be willing to bet (though I have zero scientific research to back this up) that many women utter "I'm sorry" more on a given day than "Thank you" and "You're welcome" combined. I am a woman who is sometimes right, sometimes wrong but somehow always sorry.Lena DunhamActor, Author, Screenwriter, Director and ProducerLeaving Istanbul, with the inaugural World Humanitarian Summit now behind us, I remain optimistic in humanity's shared future. But impact cannot be measured by what was said in Istanbul; it is what we do next that matters.I will not join in the vicious quarrels between partisans of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. I refuse to give ammunition to Trump for the campaign. Sanders and Clinton--and their allies-should focus their energies on defeating Trump, not on attacking one another.Diane RavitchResearch Professor of Education, New York University; Author, 'Reign of Error'Through three decades of feverish connecting, integrating and tangling together -- from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of social media -- we have built a precious but, history tells us, fragile new world. In so many ways, we are starting to flourish. But equally, we are starting to fray. An age of discovery is a time of upheaval. And upheaval makes both winners and losers.Ian GoldinDirector of the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University; Co-author, "Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance"Chris KutarnaCo-author, "Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance"Hillary offers effective ways to reduce the growing economic gaps that matter most to lower and middle income families - and she has also attracted the broadest support from working Americans of modest means.Theda SkocpolVictor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and formerly Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard UniversityIt saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions due to people's choice. 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Anyone can select the many routines around the convenience which you have. We are responsible for our choices and the only ones capable of changing our future.Gisele BundchenFashion model, actress, goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment ProgrammeWith the Democratic primaries grinding to a bitter end, I have suggestions for both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters that neither will like. First, my advice to Clinton supporters: Don't try to drum Bernie Sanders out of the race before Hillary Clinton officially gets the nomination (if she in fact does get it). Some of you say Bernie should bow out because he has no chance of getting the nomination, and his continuing candidacy is harming Hillary Clinton's chances.Robert ReichChancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; author, 'Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few''The EU referendum will be one of the most significant decisions British citizens will ever have to make. The outcome will affect how the UK is governed, national security, the economy, human rights, the environment, culture... every aspect of our lives. It will define what it means to be British and could alter this country's relationship with the world for generations to come.Bianca JaggerFounder and Chair, Bianca Jagger Human Rights FoundationIs Sanders correct that he is more likely than Hillary Clinton to keep Donald Trump out of the White House? At stake in this debate is not just the choice between Sanders and Clinton, but competing visions of the future of the Democratic Party.Jerome KarabelProfessor of sociology, University of California at BerkeleyThe bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have not produced eternal peace. Instead they opened a Pandora's box that can never be fully locked back up.I had wondered what the co-creator of the recent Martin Scorsese-Mick Jagger HBO offering Vinyl was doing seemingly dishing dirt on our Glimmer Twins. Cohen had worked for the duo of Marty & Micky in the 90s and the co-creator credit appeared to be his belated going-away prize. Whether it was offered, deserved or seized is very hard to discern when the result is Vinyl.If the Democratic Party today aligns itself, especially with young voters, for a clear vision that rejects the neo-liberal policies that have ruled both major parties since the 1970s, and embraces an agenda for transforming the nation they can ride the wave of change. Or be left behind.Rose Ann DeMoroExecutive director, National Nurses United (AFL-CIO) and California Nurses AssociationBecause much of this daily tragedy is occurring in Black neighborhoods with Black victims, as the Times' study so accurately highlights, there is no national outrage. Instead, we have a candidate running for the highest office in the land who is ok with having more guns everywhere, and who is ok with using coded language about entire groups of people.For years the National Rifle Association has maintained its stranglehold on national politics by convincing politicians that it is politically invincible. But now there is fresh evidence -- actual numbers -- that show the NRA is increasingly feeling the heat of Americans' shifting attitudes about gun violence prevention.To those of you who think you're being helpful by "protecting" me and my fellow women, you're like a shark sitting in the lifeguard chair. I wasn't uncomfortable until you showed up at the pool and the only potential predator I see is you.This Memorial Day, find a way to honor the veterans with parades, visits to monuments and national parks where they are featured, and put a flower next to a gravesite of a fallen hero. And let's spend the other 364 days in the year fighting just as hard for them as they have for us!John A. TuresPolitical science professor, LaGrange College in GeorgiaThere is a big difference between actual human people having feelings about their actual lives and experiences of disability and a fictionalized account written by someone who isn't disabled and which heavily romanticizes very problematic stereotypes about disability.Kim SauderDisability rights blogger and PhD student in Critical Disability StudiesI had the humble honor of serving in our military. But my service was a privilege, not a sacrifice. But I had friends with whom I served who made the ultimate sacrifice. To them and their fallen brothers and sisters I am forever grateful.Joel PetersonNational award-winning author; CEO - Student Planning Services, LLC; a proud veteran; and PhD candidate & researcher in education and adoption.This male criticism of an alleged workaholic female -- one who wants to become the president of the United States -- is less about dissecting the Hillary Clinton paradox than it is about suggesting that there's yet one more thing wrong with serious, ambitious women.Joanne BambergerAuthor/Editor of Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox & E-I-C/Publisher, The Broad Side; President/CEO, Broad Side StrategiesThis week Trump rolled out a first look at how he views energy and environmental issues. Giving a rare pre-written and teleprompted speech in North Dakota, Trump addressed the faltering coal industry, the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, international energy markets and the oil trade.To anyone contemplating taking a gap year: I cannot urge strongly enough that there is no better way to transform yourself from a lost high school kid who thinks they've got a clue, to a young adult who's starting to get the idea that cluelessness is a necessary part of life.Piper JenneTraveler, reader, animal lover, adventure seeker, movie watcher, outdoors enthusiast.The atomic bombs that America dropped on Japan in August of 1945 took more than 200,000 lives. But they probably saved mine.Stanley WeissFounding Chairman, Business Executives for National SecurityWe could cynically point to hypocrisy. Certainly that's there. But I think the underlying belief system that allows a Christian university to overlook sexual violence is a kind of misogyny related to particular conservative Christian convictions about women, gender, and sexuality.Susan M. ShawProfessor of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Director of the School of Language, Culture, & Society at Oregon State UniversityThere's little sympathy in the world right now for Gawker, which has engaged in questionable and egregious reporting, but Thiel has a lot confused here.Let's teach our children that our freedom was bought and paid for by generations of service members they will never meet; while we can never repay our debt to them, it is our responsibility to remember them.Dakota MeyerU.S. Marine; Medal of Honor recipient; Veteran Employment AdvocateA relationship, a marriage even, is not the ne plus ultra of all lifestyles. On the contrary: I've never been as unhappy as I've been in an unhappy relationship. Loneliness in pairs is the worst kind of loneliness.Five years ago, we embarked on a journey that has brought us to 14 new markets across six continents. During this time, we went from being a U.S. brand, to a budding international brand, to a truly global brand. How did we get here?We remember Jimmy Stewart as the amiable Hollywood icon who appeared in many classic movies. Few Americans today know that Stewart was also a bona fide hero who served in World War II. Fewer still know that Stewart, in time, would also endure the grief of all families who lose a child to war.Michael CollearyScreenwriter (Face/Off, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), private screenwriting coach @ michaelcolleary.comWe need our smartphones, notifications screens and web browsers to be exoskeletons for our minds and interpersonal relationships that put our values, not our impulses, first. People's time is valuable. And we should protect it with the same rigor as privacy and other digital rights.