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"Music can change the world because it can change people."
Change
"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."
Brother
"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."
Disease
"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."
Respect
"U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone."
Feelings
"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality."
Equality
"Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another."
Books
"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."
Thought
"As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both."
Change
"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else."
Equality
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"Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone."
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Personal Development
"I didn't have the vaguest idea of what to do " I couldn't keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself. But even that admonition didn't work. A faculty advisor reviewing a graduation thesis would have had the perfect comment: you write well, you argue clearly, but you don't have anything to say."
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Personal Development
"Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know."
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Personal Development
"What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There is no liability if one calls a whore a virtuous woman!"
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Personal Development
"Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision."
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Personal Development
"I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone."
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Personal Development
"It is wise to use titles for people in positions of power, higher education, seniority, or maturity, unless otherwise instructed. This may sound old-fashioned, but practicing respectful traditions will earn you points and inevitably make you seem more cultured and sophisticated. This is especially true with older generations."
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Personal Development
"The natural and untainted male mind respects and loves the woman and her magnificent scope of capability and creative gifts."
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Personal Development
"Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally."
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Personal Development
"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."
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Personal Development
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