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Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.
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What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
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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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Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?
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The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.
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The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
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The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN.
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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 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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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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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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An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.
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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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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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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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There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.