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One cannot hold power and not use it.
L. Ron Hubbard
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L. Ron Hubbard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 1986
Died: January 1
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Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
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If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.
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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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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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The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.
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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.
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It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.
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Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
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Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.
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The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now.
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You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
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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.
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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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I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.
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I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.
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Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.
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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.
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In fact, you don’t have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body or your mind. You are you.
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There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.
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A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
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Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.
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