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It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

Al Gore

Well, the title “An Inconvenient Truth” is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don’t seem to accept the truth.
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Acceptance People President Reason Truth
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
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Ability Affect Interest Powerful Virtual
In a time of darkness, you don’t curse the darkness, you light a candle.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Time Wisdom Yourself
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
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Division Fear Hate Replacement Result
We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
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Achievement Balance Ourselves Believe Children Choice Earth Future Inheritance Work
A zebra does not change its spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love
For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.
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Disturb Ideas Politics Reason Truth
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
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Argument Fact Law Side Yourself
Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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Earth Mom Nature
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
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Civil History Moral Obey Play Role Thinking Understand
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
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Civilization Deep Drive Earth Expansion Nature Ourselves Surface Willing
Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.
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Believe Better Demand Leadership Ourselves Power Voice
The will to act is a renewable resource.
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Act Renewable Resource Willing
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
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Alive Creative Emergency Generation Mission Planet Way
The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.
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Earth Fate Kind Man Possible Religion
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
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Education Myself President Special

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

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