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I Have Seen Life From The Top Down And The Bottom Up. I Know How It Looks Both Ways. And I Know There Is Wisdom And That There Is Hope.

-L. Ron Hubbard

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I Have Seen Life From The Top Down And The Bottom Up. I Know How It Looks Both Ways. And I Know There Is Wisdom And That There Is Hope.

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The Greatest Ability In The Whole Human Race And All Amongst The Livingness, Is The Ability To Help. And When You Can Improve That Ability All The Way Up Along The Line, You've Improved About All There Is To Improve About A Person.

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And I Don't See That Popular Measures, Self-abnegation And Democracy Have Done Anything For Man But Push Him Further Into The Mud. Currently, Popularity Endorses Degraded Novels, Self-abnegation Has Filled The Southeast Asian Jungles With Stone Idols And Corpses, And Democracy Has Given Us Inflation And Income Tax.

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This [scientology] Is Useful Knowledge. With It The Blind Again See, The Lame Walk, The Ill Recover, The Insane Become Sane And The Sane Become Saner. By Its Use The Thousand Abilities Man Has Sought To Recover Become His Once More.

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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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The Freedom Of An Individual Depends Upon That Individual's Freedom To Alter His Considerations Of Space, Energy, Time And Life And His Roles In It. If He Cannot Change His Mind About These, He Is Then Fixed And Enslaved Amidst Barriers Such As Those Of The Physical Universe, And Barriers Of His Own Creation. Man Thus Is Seen To Be Enslaved By Barriers Of His Own Creation. He Creates These Barriers Himself, Or By Agreeing With Things Which Hold These Barriers To Be Actual.

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Despite The Amount Of Suffering, Pain, Misery, Sorrow And Travail Which Can Exist In Life, The Reason For Existence Is The Same Reason As One Has To Play A Game-interest, Contest, Activity And Possession. The Truth Of This Assertion Is Established By An Observation Of The Elements Of Games And Then Applying These Elements To Life Itself.

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A True Educator Locates The Intelligence And Abilities Within Another, Drawing Them Out For All, Even The Student, To See. And Then Steps Out Of The Way, Allowing Them To Develop, Create And Pursue Their Talent.

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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Self Confidence

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Any Information Is Valuable To The Degree That You Can Use It. In Other Words, Any Information Is Valuable To The Degree That You Can Make It Yours. Scientology Does Not Teach You. It Only Reminds You. For The Information Was Yours In The First Place. It Is Not Only The Science Of Life, But It Is An Account Of What You Were Doing Before You Forgot What You Were Doing.

Unethical Conduct Is Actually The Conduct Of Destruction And Fear; Lies Are Told Because One Is Afraid Of The Consequences Should One Tell The Truth; Thus, The Liar Is Inevitably A Coward, The Coward Is Inevitably A Liar.

Somebody Somewhere On This Planet, Back About 600 B.c. Found Some Pieces Of R6, And I Don't Know How They Found It, Either By Watching Madman Or Something. But Since That Time They Have Used It And It Became What Is Known As Christianity. The Man On The Cross. There Was No Christ. But The Man On The Cross Is Shown As Everyman. So Of Course Each Person Seeing A Crucified Man, Has An Immediate Feeling Of Sympathy For This Man. Therefore You Get Many Pcs Who Says They Are Christ. Now, There's Two Reasons For That, One Is The Roman Empire Was Prone To Crucify People, So A Person Can Have Been Crucified, But In R6 He Is Shown As Crucified.

Knowledge Is Observation And Is Given To Those Who Would Look.

The South African Native Is Probably The One Impossible Person To Train In The Entire World; He Is Probably Impossible By Any Human Standard.

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

Not Smoking Enough Will Cause Lung Cancer! If Anybody Is Getting A Cancerous Activity In The Lung, The Probabilities Are That It's Radiation Dosage Coupled With The Fact That He Smokes. And What It Does Is Start To Run Out The Radiation Dosage, Don't You See.

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.

Every Separate Sector Of Artistic Creation Has Its Own Basic Rules . . . Data Which Govern It. They Are Contained In The Textbooks On These Subjects. A Professional Knows The Rules Of The Game As A Matter Of Course So That He Can Achieve, In The Upper Strata Above That, A High Quality Of Art.

The Ultimate Decision, The Fastest Decision There Is, Is Action!

What Is Generally Missed, Is That My Writing Financed Research.

What Is True For You Is What You Have Observed Yourself. And When You Lose That, You Have Lost Everything.

Lost Everything

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.

I Am A Writer Of The Textbooks Of Scientology.

If One Does Not Like The Crime, Cruelty, Injustice And Violence Of This Society, He Can Do Something About It.

Truth Is An All-freeing Mechanism.

All Disturbance And Chaos Folds Up In The Teeth Of Truth. Dont Ever Try To Stop Truth. Its The Only Thing That Can Go Through 16-inch Armor Plate.

Maintain Silence In The Presence Of Birth To Save Both The Sanity Of The Mother And The Child And Safeguard The Home To Which They Will Go.

Learning Locked In Mildewed Books Is Of Little Use To Anyone And Therefore Of No Value Unless It Can Be Used.

The Best Way To Know Any Future Is To Cause One.

Ideas And Not Battles Mark The Forward Progress Of Mankind.

When We Need Somebody Haunted We Investigate. When We Investigate We Do So Noisily Always.

It Is Vital To Any Organization, To Be Strong And Effective, To Be Ethical.

Dianetics Is An Adventure. It Is An Exploration Into Terra Incognita, The Human Mind, That Vast And Hitherto Unknown Realm Half An Inch Back Of Our Foreheads.

Through Our Hardest Times We Have Endured. Into Our Brightest Times We Are Expanding.

If You Want To Make A Little Money, Write A Book. If You Want To Make A Lot Of Money, Create A Religion.

Stress The Right Of The Individual To Select Only What He Desires To Know, To Use Any Knowledge As He Wishes, That He Himself Owns What He Has Learned.

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.

Art Is A Word Which Summarizes The Quality Of Communication.

The Only Way You Can Be Successful On A Post Or Win At It Is To Be At Cause Over It.

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