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A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: what in God's name were they doing? or they may look back and say: how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love of their Father in Heaven.
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I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.
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