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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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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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I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.
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The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry.
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The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.
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Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.
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Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.
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We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising...Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on earth itself.
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The center of the earth is about a million degrees.
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Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.
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You know, in physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, Well, I need to react to that. I think that's happening.
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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
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There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it's burnt. But there's not a single demonstration project in the United States. [...] Clean coal doesn't exist.
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I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.
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Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
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As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
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You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.
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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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Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.
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