L. Ron Hubbard Quotes
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Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.
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You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.
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As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.
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As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.
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The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
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You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.
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One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
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Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.
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I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
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Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.
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You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.
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Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.
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Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.
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When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.
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A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.
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A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.
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The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists.
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A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
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You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day.
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One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.
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When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.
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You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
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A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.
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An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.