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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Bono

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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Artist Cracks Thinking
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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Music Positive Song
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Coal Cost Oil
What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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Ends Folks Pops
I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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Audience Hear Public Opinion
Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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Defense Homework World
Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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Kings Real Thinking
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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Commodities Oil School Two
The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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Father People Something Trying Wrong
I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
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Darkness Importance Mean People
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Ambition Chivalry Growth
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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Despair Enemy Poverty
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.
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Hissing Life Living Missing
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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Hands Jesus Looks
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Catholic Rocks Stars

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

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