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.

L. Ron Hubbard

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You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

L. Ron Hubbard

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Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

L. Ron Hubbard

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The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

L. Ron Hubbard

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If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

L. Ron Hubbard

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What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

L. Ron Hubbard

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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

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To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

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Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

L. Ron Hubbard

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Are you making life or is life making you?

L. Ron Hubbard

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

L. Ron Hubbard

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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.

L. Ron Hubbard

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All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

L. Ron Hubbard

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Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

L. Ron Hubbard

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The test of true competence is the end result.

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The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

L. Ron Hubbard

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It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

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The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

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The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.

L. Ron Hubbard

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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.

L. Ron Hubbard

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As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.

L. Ron Hubbard

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