Al Gore Quotes
For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes - including those for social security and unemployment compensation - and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes - principally on CO
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
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Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
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When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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Medicine and writing are natural companions.
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By 2030, up to 10 percent of the world's gross domestic product could be linked to space in some way.
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For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes - including those for social security and unemployment compensation - and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes - principally on CO
