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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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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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Save The Child And You Save The Nation.

Save The Children

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

Lost Everything

Like The Bright, Cool Dawn After A Night Of Prison And Of Thunder, Man Can Taste That Freedom Sought So Long.

In Any Event, Any Person From 2.0 Down On The Tone Scale Should Not Have, In Any Thinking Society, Any Civil Rights Of Any Kind, Because By Abusing Those Rights He Brings Into Being Arduous And Strenuous Laws Which Are Oppressive To Those Who Need No Such Restraints.

Always Maintain Good Relations With Your Public.

The Problem Of South Africa Is Different Than The World Thinks. There Is No Native Problem. The Native Worker Gets More Than White Workers Do In England! [...] The South African Government Is Not A Police State. It's Easier On People Than The United States Government!

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

Happiness And Strength Endure Only In The Absence Of Hate. To Hate Alone Is The Road To Disaster. To Love Is The Road To Strength. To Love In Spite Of All Is The Secret Of Greatness. And May Very Well Be The Greatest Secret In This Universe.

They Smell Of All The Baths They Didnt Take. The Trouble With China Is, There Are Too Many Chinks Here.

The Arab Is Trying To Be Pleased With Death And Murder And Mayhem And Disease And Poverty And Political Unrest.

Organised Religion Tries To Control, So Therefore Must Be Lying.

Organised Religion

Living Is Having And Following A Purpose. That's All.

Dianetics Is A Milestone For Man Comparable To His Discovery Of Fire And Superior To His Invention Of The Wheel And The Arch.

Being Competent Means The Ability To Control And Operate The Things In The Environment And The Environment Itself.

The Curve Of Imagination, The Curve Of Brilliance And The Curve Of Sanity Are Identical Curves Or At Least Similar Curves... The More Imagination A Person Has, Why, The More Intelligence, The More Knowingness He Has And The Saner He's Going To Be.

The Most Valuable Asset We Have, Actually, Is Our Ability To Understand, To Do The Right Thing, To Be Kind, To Be Decent.

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.

There Is No National Problem In The World Today Which Cannot Be Resolved By Reason Alone.

Ideas And Not Battles Mark The Forward Progress Of Mankind.

I Set Out To Try To Help My Fellow Man And To Do What Little I Could To Make The World A Better Place.

That Which A Person Works Hardest On, He Winds Up Having. That's One Of The Fundamentals Of This Universe. That To Which He Devotes Energy, He Finally Has.

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