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Al Gore Politician
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"We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary."

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Al Gore Politician
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"It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface."

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Geoff Dyer Author
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"I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of the reasons for that is my living this life, which is otherwise so free of obligations. It's not at all unusual for anybody who's independently employed to crave a way of living whereby they create the structures without which their lives would otherwise start slopping around all over the place."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value."

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Lily Cole Model, Actress
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"I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual."

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford Religious Leader
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"Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others."

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