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We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty.

Bob Geldof

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
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Depression Experience People Views
When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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Angel Moving Voice
Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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Country Scar Soul World
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Book Contemporary Fascinating
They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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Facts Halls Jerry Tom
It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
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Ebola Tragedy World
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Collective Things Younger
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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Day End Reading Tired
Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they’re left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids
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Attention Dressing Humor Kids Men
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
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Careers Stone Years
Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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Everybody Individual Our Poverty Problem
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Inner Peace Inspirational
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
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People Progress Trying
Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Like Monday Reson
I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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Organization People Thinking Trade Words

We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty.

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We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty.

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