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The More Reality We Face, The More We Realise That Unreality Is The Main Programme Of The Day. The More Real We Become, The More Abuse We Take, So It Does Radicalise Us In A Way, Like Being Put In A Corner. But It Would Be Better If There Were More Of Us.

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The More Reality We

John Lennon

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The More Reality We Face, The More We Realise That Unreality Is The Main Programme Of The Day. The More Real We Become, The More Abuse We Take, So It Does Radicalise Us In A Way, Like Being Put In A Corner. But It Would Be Better If There Were More Of Us.

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I Don't Believe In Yesterday.

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Love Is You, You And Me. Love Is Knowing We Can Be.

You Are Not Your Emotions,you Have Emotions,and You Can Master Them.

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I Want It To Sound Like An Orange.

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Father, You Left Me, But I Never Left You.

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I Remember A Time When Everybody I Loved Hated Me Because I Hated Them.

Nothing Will Stop Me, And Whether I'm Here Or Wherever I May Be, I'll Always Have The Same Feelings, I'll Say What I Feel.

Declare It. Just The Same Way We Declare War. That Is How We Will Have Peace... We Just Need To Declare It.

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I Hope Someday You Will Join Us And The World Will Live As One.

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One Thing I Can Tell You Is You Have To Be Free. Come Together, Right Now, Over Me.

Songwriting Is About Getting The Demon Out Of Me. It's Like Being Possessed.

I Don't Want To Be King, I Want To Be Real.

We're All God. I'm Not A God Or The God, But We're All God And We're All Potentially Divine - And Potentially Evil.

Mahatma Gandhi And Martin Luther King Are Great Examples Of Fantastic Nonviolents Who Died Violently. I Can Never Work That Out. We're Pacifists, But I'm Not Sure What It Means When You're Such A Pacifist That You Get Shot. I Can Never Understand That.

I'm Not Going To Change The Way I Look Or The Way I Feel To Conform To Anything. I've Always Been A Freak. So I've Been A Freak All My Life And I Have To Live With That, You Know. I'm One Of Those People.

We Reckoned We Could Make It Because There Were Four Of Us. None At Us Would've Made It Alone, Because Paul Wasn't Quite Strong Enough, I Didn't Have Enough Girl-appeal, George Was Too Quiet, And Ringo Was The Drummer. But We Thought That Everyone Would Be Able To Dig At Least One Of Us, And That's How It Turned Out.

If [sean] Doesn't See Me A Few Days Or If I'm Really, Really Busy, And I Just Sort Of Get A Glimpse Of Him, Or If I'm Feeling Depressed Without Him Even Seeing Me, He Sort Of Picks Up On It. And He Starts Getting That Way. So I Can No Longer Afford To Have Artistic Depressions. If I Start Wallowing In A Depression, He'll Start Coming Down With Stuff, So I'm Sort Of Obligated To Keep Up. And Sometimes I Can't, Because Something Will Make Me Depressed And Sure As Hell He'll Get A Cold Or Trap His Finger In A Door Or Something, And So Now I Have Sort Of More Reason To Stay Healthy Or Bright.

You'd Have To Give People Free Rein To Attack The Local Councils Or To Destroy The School Authorities, Like The Students Who Break Up The Repression In The Universities. It's Already Happening, Though People Have Got To Get Together More.

If There's Anything That You Want, If There's Anything I Can Do, Just Call On Me, And I'll Send It Along With Love From Me To You.

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