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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.

Bob Geldof

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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Hair Holding Wells
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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Drug Made Thinking
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
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
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Anything People Unreasonable Well
I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think,
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Fun Nice Thinking
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Above Music Still
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
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Country Done Political President
Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we’d have done it. That’s the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, ‘were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?’
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Again Country Imaginary Universe
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 I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Collective Things Younger
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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Aids Poverty Spring Trying War
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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Environmental People World
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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Fighting Men Way
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
Music can’t change the world.
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Change Changing Music World

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