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When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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I would have loved to have been on the Band Aid record but I only heard about it when I was in Germany. I don't know if they would have had me on the record anyway, because I'm a bit old. I'm just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck.
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When a man is taken in a mystical sense, his qualities are often signified by his actions, and by the circumstances of things about him.
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Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbours: however, they are real blessings when in the hands of good men.
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We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
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It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.
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There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
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When I was cleaning the cat shit and feeding Sean, she [Yoko] was sitting in rooms full of smoke with men in three-piece suits that they couldn't button.
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Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.
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