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Produce Your Own Dream. If You Want To Save Peru, Go Save Peru. It’s Quite Possible To Do Anything, But Not If You Put It On The Leaders And The Parking Meters. Don’t Expect Carter Or Reagan Or John Lennon Or Yoko Ono Or Bob Dylan Or Jesus Christ To Come And Do It For You. You Have To Do It Yourself.

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Produce Your Own Dream.

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Produce Your Own Dream. If You Want To Save Peru, Go Save Peru. It’s Quite Possible To Do Anything, But Not If You Put It On The Leaders And The Parking Meters. Don’t Expect Carter Or Reagan Or John Lennon Or Yoko Ono Or Bob Dylan Or Jesus Christ To Come And Do It For You. You Have To Do It Yourself.

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Coping Mechanisms

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Millions Of Mind Guerrillas, Raising The Spirit Of Peace And Love, Not War.

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When His Rolls Royce Was Mobbed By Fans The Chauffeur Said: ''do You Want Me To Get Them Off The Car?'' And Lennon Replied: ''no - They Paid For It, They Can Wreck It

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Peace In Your Mind, Peace On Earth, Peace At Work, Peace At Home, Peace In The World.

All You Need Is Love.

Imagine There's No Heaven, It's Easy If You Try. No Hell Below Us, Above Us Only Sky. Imagine All The People Living For Today...

Well, I Just Want Him To Grow Up Happy. That's The Main Thing.

There Is No Denying That We Are Still Living In The Capitalist World. I Think That In Order To Survive And To Change The World, You Have To Take Care Of Yourself First. You Have To Survive Yourself.

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