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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.

-L. Ron Hubbard

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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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Lifes Light. Life Is Light. You Can Make Light Do Anything You Want To. Photography Means 'light Writing'.

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

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.

Music Is Indeed The Universal Language.

Universal Language

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.

Save The Child And You Save The Nation.

Save The Children

Now If We Can Get White Population, Immigrants And Big Companies And So On Moving Into Africa And If We Can Get With That Scientology Well Established In Southern Africa, Why We Can Then Look Forward To A Salvage Operation Base, In Case The Northern Hemisphere's Lights Go Out.

As South Africa Has A White Population Of Only 2.8 Million Or Thereabouts, You Can See That Every Other Central Organization In The World Has Been Out-created.

The Spirit Of Christmas Lives With Us. We Are The Protectors Of The Real Tradition Of Christmas-peace On Earth And Goodwill To All. We Are The Hope Of Man-the Only Hope. Mankind's Salvation Lies Within Our Hands. With Our Tech And Ability We Can Create Here On Earth A Real Heaven Where Men Can Be Free. In Our Hands Lies The Power To Restore To Man His Determinism And All That He Finds Good In Himself-his Honesty, His Integrity, And The Thrill Of Being Of Real Help To Others. A Very Merry Christmas To You All And A Bright Friendly New Year.

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