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Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

Al Gore

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.
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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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The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
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My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.
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I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.
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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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Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
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You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.
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Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.
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I think I may have a future as a disembodied head.
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It's an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies.
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All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.
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In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
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I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.
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The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.
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Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.
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Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.
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