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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.

Bono

I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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Darkness Song Writing
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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General Much People Rich
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Catholic Rocks Stars
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
Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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Asking Blessed God
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.
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God Opportunity Wasted
I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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House Moving Running
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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Dream Real Strong
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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Art Must Understand
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
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.
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Breathing Christian Learn Sure
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself
U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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Emotional Feelings Originality
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
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

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