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How Does Life Become Totally Painful By Total Retreat. Total Noninspection Becomes Total Pain.but Existence Is Basically Composed Of A Very Few Truths Onto Which Have Hung A Great Many Artificialities And Which Man Has Adorned With Enormous Numbers Of Lies. And Man Is Prisoner Of His Own Shadows. Now One Of The Things You Can Do With Man Is To Get Him To Look Up And Find Out That He Can Look Through The Shadows And Look At The Shadows And Find Out What They Are.

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How Does Life Become Totally Painful By Total Retreat. Total Noninspection Becomes Total Pain.but Existence Is Basically Composed Of A Very Few Truths Onto Which Have Hung A Great Many Artificialities And Which Man Has Adorned With Enormous Numbers Of Lies. And Man Is Prisoner Of His Own Shadows. Now One Of The Things You Can Do With Man Is To Get Him To Look Up And Find Out That He Can Look Through The Shadows And Look At The Shadows And Find Out What They Are.

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Convince A Man That He Is An Animal, That His Own Dignity And Selfrespect Are Delusions, That There Is No 'beyond' To Aspire To, No Higher Potential Self To Achieve, And You Have A Slave. Let A Man Know He Is Himself, A Spiritual Being, That He Is Capable Of The Power Of Choice And Has The Right To Aspire To Greater Wisdom And You Have Started Him Up A Higher Road.

You Can Get A Much Better Fee - I Tell You As Auditors Quite Frankly - It's Much Easier To Get A Great Deal Of Money Out Of Somebody Who's On A Down Spiral Into Becoming Mest Than It Is To Get Money Out Of Somebody Who Is Going On An Up Spiral Toward Becoming Theta.

Before The Beginning Was A Cause And The Entire Purpose Of The Cause Was The Creation Of Effect.

God Was Feeling Sardonic The Day He Created The Universe. So It's Rather Up To At Least One Man Every Few Centuries To Pop Up And Come Just As Close To Making Him Swallow His Laughter As Possible.

How Does Life Become Totally Painful By Total Retreat. Total Noninspection Becomes Total Pain.but Existence Is Basically Composed Of A Very Few Truths Onto Which Have Hung A Great Many Artificialities And Which Man Has Adorned With Enormous Numbers Of Lies. And Man Is Prisoner Of His Own Shadows. Now One Of The Things You Can Do With Man Is To Get Him To Look Up And Find Out That He Can Look Through The Shadows And Look At The Shadows And Find Out What They Are.

There Is No Madder Nation Than Japan. ... And That Nation Has The Highest Rate Of Suicide, Has The Highest Rate Of Thick-lens Glasses And Did The Most Suicidal Trick A Few Years Ago. It's The Doggonedest Country.

If There Is An Authoritarian Structure At St. Hill It Has Been Brought Into Being By The Government Itself. St. Hill Is Trying To Correct Itself. It Doesn't Know What It's Trying To Correct Because Nobody Has Told It What To Correct.

The Differences Between A Competent Person And An Incompetent Person Are Demonstrated In His Environment (surroundings).

Tolerance Is A Good Cornerstone On Which To Build Human Relationships.

The Ultimate Freedom Depends On Knowing The Ultimate Truth. Truth Is Not What People Say It Is, It Is What It Is. And Truth, Quite Remarkably, Sets One Free, Just Like Philosophers Have Said Down The Ages.

You Are Only Three Or Four Hours From Taking Your Glasses Off For Keeps.

A Good Dianetic Auditor Can Take A Broken-down, Sorrow-drenched Lady Of Thirty-eight And Knock Out Her Past Periods Of Physical And Mental Pain And Have On His Hands Somebody Who Appears To Be Twenty-five-and A Bright, Cheerful Twenty-five At That.

If You Can Achieve Action, You Will Achieve Happiness.

There's Only One Remedy For Crime — Get Rid Of The Psychs! They Are Causing It!

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