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Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually. (Bono)
I've never left Ireland, really, you know you come here, come to America, I mean for Irish people America is kind of a promise land" ... "It's the milk and honey ya know and we've always had this feeling for this country and the country I think has a feeling for our band. View quote
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Segregation. There was another one. America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age. And 50 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court betrayed the age May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education came down and put the lie to the idea that separate can ever really be equal. Amen to that. View quote
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Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations. View quote
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It's much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful. View quote
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Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud. View quote
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves. View quote
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real. View quote
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Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later. View quote
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don't know how Jesus does it. View quote
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The less you know, the more you believe. (Bono)
Perspective is the cure for depression. View quote
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Whenever I see grace, I'm moved. View quote
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well. View quote
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim. View quote
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw. View quote
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God. View quote
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The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart. View quote
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At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action. View quote
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What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music. View quote
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I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months. (Bono)
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. View quote
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Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it. View quote
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Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, "He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute." Well, this is the time for bold measures. View quote
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was - which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. View quote
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