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My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#straightforward #suburban #upbringing #very #working

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bands #believe #career #change #change the world

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#catharsis #expressed #grassroots #history #how

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. ↗

— David Brainerd

#god #i #may #observed #perhaps

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#being #cannot #cooperating #either #fly

Afghanistan is a land-locked country. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#country

But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#after #also #continue #games #had

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#afghanistan #between #community #coordination #country

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#advances #china #costs #countries #demographic

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#decide #end #even #except #fight