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You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.
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Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.
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Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.
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How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.
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I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'
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I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
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Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.
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