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You can say the Earth is flat, but it doesn't mean you're going to fall off the edge.

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
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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 understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.
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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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Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.
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