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If At This Moment You Simply Made Up Your Minds That You Were Handsome, Beautiful, Strong, Dangerous, Powerful, That You Knew Everything There Was To Know, You Were Totally Capable In Any Job That You Undertook Or Any Sport You Undertook-if You Really Believed That, And You Can Believe It, Some Of Your Faces Would Change Physically Before My Eyes.

-L. Ron Hubbard

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L. Ron Hubbard

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If At This Moment You Simply Made Up Your Minds That You Were Handsome, Beautiful, Strong, Dangerous, Powerful, That You Knew Everything There Was To Know, You Were Totally Capable In Any Job That You Undertook Or Any Sport You Undertook-if You Really Believed That, And You Can Believe It, Some Of Your Faces Would Change Physically Before My Eyes.

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

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Make Money. Make More Money. Make Others Produce So As To Make Money... However You Get Them In Or Why, Just Do It.

As Long As Life Has The Level Of Being A Game, You Can Play It.

You May Have Noticed That Society Is Rapidly Going Downhill. Inflation, Lack Of Fuel And Even War Cast Deep Shadows Over The World. And The Most Serious Part Of This Is That Drugs, Both Medical And Street Drugs, Have Disabled A Majority Of Those Who Could Have Handled It, Including The Political Leaders, And Have Even Paralyzed The Coming Generations.

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.

The Artist Injects The Spirit Of Life Into A Culture.

I Believe That To Command Is To Serve And Only Gives One The Right To Serve.

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.

Insecurity Exists In The Absence Of Knowledge. All Security Derives From Knowledge.

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

A Person Is Either The Effect Of His Environment Or Is Able To Have An Effect Upon His Environment.

Furthermore, [sigmund Freud] Had A Racial Fixation On Sex, A Fixation Sufficiently Pronounced To Cause It To Infect Contagiously All Modern European Stock.

The Artist, Day By Day, By Postulating The New Realities Of The Future, Accomplishes Peaceful Revolution.

Morale Is Boosted To High Highs By Accomplishment. In Fact, It Can Be Demonstrated That Production Is The Basis Of Morale.

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