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I Believe In God, But Not As One Thing, Not As An Old Man In The Sky. I Believe That What People Call God Is Something In All Of Us. I Believe That What Jesus And Mohammed And Buddha And All The Rest Said Was Right. It's Just That The Translations Have Gone Wrong.

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I Believe In God,

John Lennon

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I Believe In God, But Not As One Thing, Not As An Old Man In The Sky. I Believe That What People Call God Is Something In All Of Us. I Believe That What Jesus And Mohammed And Buddha And All The Rest Said Was Right. It's Just That The Translations Have Gone Wrong.

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Instant Karma's Gonna Get You, Gonna Knock You Right On The Head

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If Someone Thinks That Love And Peace Is A Cliche That Must Have Been Left Behind In The Sixties, That's His Problem. Love And Peace Are Eternal.

A Very Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year Let's Hope It's A Good One Without Any Fear.

Yoko [ono] Was Showing Me Some Of These Haiku In The Original. The Difference Between Them And Long Fellow Is Immense. Instead Of A Long Flowery Poem The Haiku Would Say 'yellow Flower In White Bowl On Wooden Table' Which Gives You The Whole Picture.

The Writing Of The Beatles, Or John And Paul's Contribution To The Beatles In The Late Sixties - Had A Kind Of Depth To It, A More Mature, More Intellectual Approach. We Were Different People, We Were Older. We Knew Each Other In All Kinds Of Different Ways Than When We Wrote Together As Teenagers And In Our Older Twenties.

In Western-style Communism We Would Have To Create An Almost Imaginary Workers' Image Of Themselves As The Father-figure.

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