About John Lennon

English musician and co-founder of the Beatles. (1940-1980)

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• The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.Interview for RKO Radio (December 8, 1980)
• All you need is love.All You Need Is Love (1967), song

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• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
• It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?Henry David Thoreau
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau
• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.Ralph Waldo Emerson
• What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.Friedrich Nietzsche
• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.Viktor Frankl

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