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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.

Bono

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
BONO

Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
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

Islands Sea Taught
When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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God People Pieces Thank
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.
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Country Fire Flames Needs
For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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Littles Lost Moments
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Bequeath Children Pops
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Building Enemy Happens
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
U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BONO

Emotional Feelings Originality
The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
BONO

Believe Children Ideas
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
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
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)
BONO

Darkness Importance Mean People
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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Brother Distance Unity
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.
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Blessing Looks Weakness

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