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.
True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.
In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.
The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.
Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
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.
Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.
A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.
The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.
Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.
Through our hardest times we have endured. Into our brightest times we are expanding.
If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness.
To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence. You have to rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what he is.
And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.
What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
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.
They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.
In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.
You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.
If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes.
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.
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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