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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Bono

I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
BONO

Causes Celebrities Thinking
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO

Bequeath Children Pops
It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
BONO

Blessing Looks Weakness
The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
BONO

Believe Children Ideas
You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
BONO

Hissing Life Living Missing
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
BONO

Inspire Music Songs
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
BONO

Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
BONO

Helping Jesus World
Music can change the world because it can change people.
BONO

Change Inspirational Music
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
BONO

Dear Stupid Wells
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
BONO

Believe Book War
Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
BONO

Abandoned Everyone Following Sometimes
I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
BONO

Breathing Christian Learn Sure
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
BONO

Art Must Understand
The less you know, the more you believe.
BONO

Believe Favourite Humility
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
BONO

Building Enemy Happens

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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