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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.
Bono
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Bono
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 10
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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
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There is a root arrogance in any writer a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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