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Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

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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Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. ... The white goes further. He often believes he can get attention only from whites and that yellow and brown people's attention is worthless. Thus the yellow and brown races are not very progressive, but, by and large, saner.
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Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.
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Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.
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When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.
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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.
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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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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.
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When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.
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The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN.
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God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
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Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.
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I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
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