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We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

Al Gore

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.
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And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.
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