L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

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A workman is not just a workman.
A laborer is not just a laborer.
An office worker is not just an office worker.
They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine.
They are the machine itself.

L. Ron Hubbard
A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.

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Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

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Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

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Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

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The Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe.... primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness...

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Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

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The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.

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Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one's ability to decide and in one's decisions.

L. Ron Hubbard
One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.

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People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.

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That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.

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The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

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All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

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There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.

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Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

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

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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.

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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.

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The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world

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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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Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

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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.

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Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

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Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

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Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect,

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If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

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People have value and are important. Big or small they are important.

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There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

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