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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

Bono

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

Coal Cost Oil
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
BONO

Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
BONO

Birthday Dream Record See Song
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
BONO

Catholic Rocks Stars
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
BONO

Dream Sorrow Swim
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
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
BONO

Eye Mean Ocean
Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
BONO

Artist Technology Thinking
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
BONO

Country Digging Thinking
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO

Bequeath Children Pops
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
BONO

God Sometimes Way
Rock stars are good at making noise.
BONO

Noise Rocks Stars
God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
BONO

God Opportunity Wasted
It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
BONO

Honesty Successful Thinking
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.
BONO

Audience Hear Public Opinion
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
BONO

Country Fire Flames Needs

If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

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