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“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.”

Quote by John Lennon

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John Lennon, born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, and died on December 8, 1980. He was a founding member of the iconic rock band The Beatles, known for his unique musical talent and his advocacy for peace and anti-war ideas. more

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“I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.”

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Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

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“It's amazing how low you go to get high.”

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Book:Skywriting by word of mouth, and other writings, including The ballad of John and Yoko

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“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...”

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Author:John Lennon

“Happiness is a warm gun.”

Book:Lennon Remembers

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“Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.”

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“Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.”

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“A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.”

Author:George Foreman

“The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.”

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Book:Leacock on Life

Source: Leacock on Life

“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.”

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Book:Feast of Stephen

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