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How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect - and have led to - this grave crisis.
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We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.
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American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.
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There are some bright spots, to be sure, but the internet is still in a Wild West phase, as was the case during the early age of the printing press as well.
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When you're going through an emotional experience and you're focussed completely on what's happening, you can't even spare any attention that the camera's there.
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I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.
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It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.
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You can say the Earth is flat, but it doesn't mean you're going to fall off the edge.
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The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.
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To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
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I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.
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I smoked pot in college and in the Army.
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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
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The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates.
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In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.
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As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
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