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Because We Can't Comprehend It, And That's What Allows Us To Do It Again. And It Is The Normal, It's The Average Person That Can Do This. Again, In An Imaginary Other Universe, Maybe We'd Have Done It. That's The Terrible Truth That Lies At The Heart Of Each Of Us; That Imponderable, 'were I Not Jewish, In Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Would I Have Gone Down On The Other Side?'

-Bob Geldof

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Because We Can't Comprehend

Bob Geldof

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Because We Can't Comprehend It, And That's What Allows Us To Do It Again. And It Is The Normal, It's The Average Person That Can Do This. Again, In An Imaginary Other Universe, Maybe We'd Have Done It. That's The Terrible Truth That Lies At The Heart Of Each Of Us; That Imponderable, 'were I Not Jewish, In Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Would I Have Gone Down On The Other Side?'

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