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    A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

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    All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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    Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it’ll always get you the right ones.

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    I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

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    Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

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    Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

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    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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    Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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    There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

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    Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

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    Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

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    When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun, every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

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    You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

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    Quotes on Friendship by John Lennon

    Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

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    Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

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    I get by with a little help from my friends.

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    You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.

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    You’re jeans are full of crap. You’re full of beans, you’re in you teens. You’ve lost your mama’s road map.

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    John Lennon Quotes on Happiness

    Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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    When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

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    Happiness is just how you feel when you don’t feel miserable.

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    If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

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    Jesus Quotes of John Lennon

    Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

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    I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They’re all saying the same thing -​ and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said -​ the basic things he laid down about love and goodness -​ and not what people say he said.

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    I don’t believe in magic … I don’t believe in Jesus … I don’t believe in Buddha … I don’t believe in Elvis … I don’t believe in Beatles.

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    Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

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    Slipping? We’re bigger than Jesus.

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    We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now.

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    Famous Quotes of John Lennon

    We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.

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    How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.

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    I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I’m not sure where my place is.

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    I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I’d always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

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    I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

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    I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

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    I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it’s fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you’re left with great precision.

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    I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

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    I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

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    I’d like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

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    If we took over Britain, then we’d have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.

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    If you’re an unknown artist you’re lucky to get an hour in a studio – it’s a hierarchy and if you don’t have hits, you don’t get recorded again.

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    In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers’ image of themselves as the father-figure.

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    It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don’t pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.

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    It’s no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.

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    Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I’ll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.

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    Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It’s all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

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    Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don’t have the impact we had when we were together.

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    Of course it’s difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

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    Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

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    The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: ‘Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?’

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    The women are very important too, we can’t have a revolution that doesn’t involve and liberate women. It’s so subtle the way you’re taught male superiority.

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    We should be trying to reach the young workers because that’s when you’re most idealistic and have least fear.

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    We’d also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.

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    When I was singing about ‘All You Need Is Love’ I was talking about something I hadn’t experienced.

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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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