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Quote by Al Gore

“A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.”

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Former U.S. Vice President, climate advocate, and politician. Al Gore served as the Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his contributions to the fight against climate change. more

“...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?”

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Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.”

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Author:George Orwell

“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.”

“A zebra does not change its spots.”

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Author:Al Gore

“I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].”

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Author:James Madison

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