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We're Trying To Sell Peace, Like A Product, You Know, And Sell It Like People Sell Soap Or Soft Drinks. And It's The Only Way To Get People Aware That Peace Is Possible, And It Isn't Just Inevitable To Have Violence. Not Just War - All Forms Of Violence.

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We're Trying To Sell Peace, Like A Product, You Know, And Sell It Like People Sell Soap Or Soft Drinks. And It's The Only Way To Get People Aware That Peace Is Possible, And It Isn't Just Inevitable To Have Violence. Not Just War - All Forms Of Violence.

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Love Is The Flower You've Got To Let Grow.

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I Never Went To High School Reunions. My Thing Is, Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind. That's My Attitude Toward Life. So I Don't Have Any Romanticism About Any Part Of My Past.

We Must Always Remember To Thank The Cia And The Army For Lsd. That's What People Forget.... They Invented Lsd To Control People And What They Did Was Give Us Freedom.

We're Crazy About This City. Los Angeles? That's Just A Big Parking Lot Where You Buy A Hamburger For The Trip To San Francisco.

Life Is What Happens When We Are Busy Doing Other Things. Peace Is Not Something You Wish For; It's Something You Make, Something You Do, Something You Are And Something You Give Away.

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I've Never Really Been Wanted.

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The People Have The Power. All We Have To Do Is Awaken The Power In The People.

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The Beatles Had Gone Beyond Comprehension. We Were Smoking Marijuana For Breakfast. We Were Well Into Marijuana And Nobody Could Communicate With Us, Because We Were Just Glazed Eyes, Giggling All The Time.

I'm Not Afraid Of Death Because I Don't Believe In It. It's Just Getting Out Of One Car, And Into Another

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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

What Does It Mean When A Person Is Such A Pacifist That They Get Shot? I Can Never Understand That.

They Hit You At School, They Hate You If Your Clever, And They Despise A Fool.

Life Is Very Short, And There's No Time For Fussing And Fighting My Friends

I Always Read The Papers, The Political Bits.

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I Don't Stand Back And Judge - I Do.

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I Can't Speak For George, But I Pretty Damn Well Know We Got Fed Up Of Being Sidemen For Paul.

Nobody's Ever Tried The Peace Thing, ... We Are Selling It Like Soap.

You Don't Need Anybody To Tell You Who You Are Or What You Are. You Are What You Are!

And So This Is Christmas...what Have You Done?

I Really Had A Chip On My Shoulder, ... And It Still Comes Out Every Now And Then.

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You Can't Give A Child Too Much Love And If You Love Somebody, You Can't Be With Them Enough. There's No Such Thing.

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There Was Something Wrong With Me, I Thought, Because I Seemed To See Things Other People Didn't See.

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Imagine No Possesions, I Wonder If You Can, No Need For Greed Or Hunger, A Brotherhood Of Man. Imagine All The People Sharing All The World.

Brotherhood Of Man

Love Is The Answer. What Was The Question?

The Second Political Thing I Did Was To Say 'the Beatles Are Bigger Than Jesus.' That Really Broke The Scene, I Nearly Got Shot In America For That. It Was A Big Trauma For All The Kids That Were Following Us.

No Longer Riding On The Merry-go-round, I Just Had To Let It Go.

I Was Trying To Say Something About Christianity, The Idea That You Have To Be Tortured To Attain Heaven. I Didn't Believe That.

Evolution And All Hopes For A Better World Rest In The Fearlessness And Open-hearted Vision Of People Who Embrace Life.

I Like Rock & Roll, And I Don't Like Much Else.

That's Part Of Our Policy, Is Not To Be Taken Seriously Because I Think Our Opposition, Whoever They May Be In All Their Manifest Forms, Don't Know How To Handle Humour.

My Father And Mother Split And I Never Saw My Father Until I Was 20, Nor Did I See Much More Of My Mother.

Instant Karma Is Going To Get You.

Get Back To Where You Once Belonged.

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