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The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates.

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.
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I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.
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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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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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I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.
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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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And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.
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I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations.
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