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To Salvage A Society, It Is Necessary To Aid, Abet, Raise And Increase That State Of Mind. If You Were To Set Up A Perfect Government Out Here Which Required The Intervention Of Nobody, You Would Have Destroyed The Society. But By Raising The Individual Ability Of The Persons In The Society Within The Framework That They Are Able To View, Raise Their Ability Within The Framework They Are Able To View, You Would Have Achieved A Marked Advance For That Society.

-L. Ron Hubbard

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L. Ron Hubbard

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To Salvage A Society, It Is Necessary To Aid, Abet, Raise And Increase That State Of Mind. If You Were To Set Up A Perfect Government Out Here Which Required The Intervention Of Nobody, You Would Have Destroyed The Society. But By Raising The Individual Ability Of The Persons In The Society Within The Framework That They Are Able To View, Raise Their Ability Within The Framework They Are Able To View, You Would Have Achieved A Marked Advance For That Society.

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People Have Value And Are Important. Big Or Small They Are Important.

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!

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.

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.

When Reading A Book, Be Very Certain That You Never Go Past A Word You Do Not Fully Understand. The Only Reason A Person Gives Up A Study Or Becomes Confused Or Unable To Learn Is Because He Or She Has Gone Past A Word That Was Not Understood.

Scientology Is Used To Increase Spiritual Freedom, Intelligence, Ability And To Produce Immortality.

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.

The Bomb Goes Off In Australia, And A 360-degree Sphere Of Ionosphere (which Is Up There Not Too Far Above Your Heads, Not Too Many Miles) Flashes. In Other Words, The Flash In Australia, The Ionosphere Flashes. People Get A Secondary Kickback From The Ionosphere Just As Though They Were Standing Next To The Bomb, Don't You See?

A Civilization Without Insanity, Without Criminals And Without War, Where The Able Can Prosper And Honest Beings Can Have Rights, And Where Man Is Free To Rise To Greater Heights, Are The Aims Of Scientology.

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

If You Really Want To Make A Lot Of Money, Start Your Own Religion.

There Is No Person Alive Who Cannot Make A New Beginning.

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.

For A Very Great Many Years, I Asked This Question: ‘to Communicate Or Not To Communicate?’ If One Got Himself In Such Thorough Trouble By Communication, Then Of Course One Should Stop Communicating. But This Is Not The Case. If One Gets Himself Into Trouble By Communicating, He Should Further Communicate. More Communication, Not Less, Is The Answer.

The Wise Man Tests Before He Talks. The Critic But Follows The Fad Of A Cynical And Apathetic Age.

The Third Principle Is That Any Philosophic Knowledge Is Only Valuable If It Is True Or If It Works.

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

Probably The Most Neglected Friend You Have Is You.

Self-confidenc E Alone Is Security. Your Ability Is Your Security. There Is No Security But You.

Religion Is The First Sense Of Community. Your Sense Of Community Occurs By Reason Of Mutual Experience With Others.

True Greatness Merely Refuses To Change In The Face Of Bad Actions Against One—and A Truly Great Person Loves His Fellows Because He Understands Them.

You Can Remember Times When You Were A Kid, When Life Looked Too Doggoned Deliciously Beautiful To Be Left Alone. So You Could Feel Like That Again If You Worked At It.

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