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For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse.

Al Gore

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
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The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.
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The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'
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Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.
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There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
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I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.
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Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!
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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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A leapord never changes his stripes.
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The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.
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Fake news has been around as long as news has been around.
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We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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What's really important is how our country gets through Trump period, because nothing's getting done in Washington. Every day it's another set of tweets and another set of controversies. And they're not getting anything done.
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The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to encourage a reflective frame of mind, a distance from the passions of the voters, and a capacity for deliberative consideration.
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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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The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.
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I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.
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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.
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