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With Life And All I've Been Through, I Do Have A Belief In Goodness, A Good Spirit. I Think What People Have Done With Religion Is Personified Good And Evil, So Good's Become God With 'o' Out, And Evil's Become Devil With A 'd' Added. That's My Theory Of Religion.

-Paul McCartney

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With Life And All

Paul McCartney

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With Life And All I've Been Through, I Do Have A Belief In Goodness, A Good Spirit. I Think What People Have Done With Religion Is Personified Good And Evil, So Good's Become God With 'o' Out, And Evil's Become Devil With A 'd' Added. That's My Theory Of Religion.

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I Am Quite Happy That The Beatles Came And Went. There Is Even A Sort Of Glory In Not Having It Go On Forever. There Is A Complete Body Of Work That Went From A To Z And It Is All Pretty Damn Good Stuff. The One Thing I Am Particularly Proud Of Is That Nearly Every Single Bit Of It Has Some Good Message. I Feel Fortunate When I Look Back. Life Is Not Easy, But I've Been Very Lucky - And I'm Touching Wood As I Say That.

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It (lsd) Opened My Eyes. We Only Use One-tenth Of Our Brain. Just Think Of What We Could Accomplish If We Could Only Tap That Hidden Part! It Would Mean A Whole New World If The Politicians Would Take Lsd. There Wouldn't Be Any More War Or Poverty Or Famine.

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