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As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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The role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy for the operations of our democracy. But the antidote, as in past eras of lobbyist excess, is for more involvement by citizens to build pressure on members of the House and Senate to serve the public interest.
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The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
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Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.
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The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.
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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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I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.
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A lot in the faith-based community, a lot of fundamentalist groups are - are now saying, you know, the Earth is the lord and the fullness there of, and we have an obligation to be good stewards of the planet.
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The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
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We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.
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I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.
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CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
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There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.
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The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this. But the political systems around the world have held this at arm's length because it's an inconvenient truth, because they don't want to accept that it's a moral imperative.
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The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.
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The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to encourage a reflective frame of mind, a distance from the passions of the voters, and a capacity for deliberative consideration.
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Take it from me: Elections matter.
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Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
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At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
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Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
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