Some Words of Wisdom from John Lennon

"Ninety per cent of the people on this planet, especially in the West, were born out of a bottle of whisky on a Saturday night, and there was no intent to have children. Ninetly per cent of us were accidents - I don't know anybody who has planned a child. All of us were Saturday-night specials."

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"...It's the same thing I'm expressing all the time, but now I can put it into that sentence, that I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. But I'm likely to be put away as insane for expressing that. That what's insane about it."

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"My education was sorely lacking; the only thing we did learn was fear and hatred, especially of the opposite sex.

As a teenager, all I saw were films where men beat up women. That was tough, that was the thing to do, slap them in the face, treat them rough - Humphrey Bogart and all that jazz. So that's the attitude we're brought up with. It took me a long time to get that out. That isn't reality.

The way I started understanding it was thinking, 'What would happen if I said to Ringo or Paul or George: "Go fetch that. Put the kettle on. Somebody's at the door..."' If you treated your best male friend the way you treat your woman, he'd give you a punch in the face."

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I love him!!

and yes, he did give up smoking... after he and the rest of the Beatles went to India and started meditating and such.