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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

Bono

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
BONO

Home People World
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO

Bequeath Children Pops
The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
BONO

Minded Religion Small Vision
U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
BONO

Helping Song Writing
Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
BONO

Inspiration Motivation People
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
BONO

Christian Jesus Tolerate
Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONO

Kings Real Thinking
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
The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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Country Notice Themselves
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.
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Abandoned Everyone Following Sometimes
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 great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
BONO

Albums Artist Rolling
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
BONO

Coal Cost Oil
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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God Sometimes Way
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

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

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