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After The Revolution You Have The Problem Of Keeping Things Going, Of Sorting Out All The Different Views. It's Quite Natural That Revolutionaries Should Have Different Solutions, That They Should Split Into Different Groups And Then Reform, That's The Dialectic, Isn't It - But At The Same Time They Need To Be United Against The Enemy, To Solidify A New Order.

-John Lennon

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After The Revolution You

John Lennon

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After The Revolution You Have The Problem Of Keeping Things Going, Of Sorting Out All The Different Views. It's Quite Natural That Revolutionaries Should Have Different Solutions, That They Should Split Into Different Groups And Then Reform, That's The Dialectic, Isn't It - But At The Same Time They Need To Be United Against The Enemy, To Solidify A New Order.

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News Conference In Chicago, Where He Apologized For The Above Statement, Which Was Accepted By The Vatican. (11 August 1966)

I Believe Jesus Was Right, Buddha Was Right, And All Of Those People Like That Are Right. They're All Saying The Same Thing - And I Believe It. I Believe What Jesus Actually Said - The Basic Things He Laid Down About Love And Goodness - And Not What People Say He Said.

Sometimes You Wonder, I Mean Really Wonder. I Know We Make Our Own Reality, And We Always Have A Choice, But How Much Is Preordained? Is There Always A Fork In The Road, And Are There Two Preordained Paths That Are Equally Preordained? There Could Be Hundreds Of Paths Where One Could Go This Way Or That Way -- There's A Chance, And It's Very Strange Sometimes.

I Believe That As Soon As People Want Peace In The World They Can Have It. The Trouble Is They Are Not Aware They Can Get It.

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