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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/1

“	"Scientology means scio, knowing in the fullest sense of the word and logos, study. In itself the word means knowing how to know.Scientology is a 'route', a way, rather than a dissertation or assertive body of knowledge. Through its drills and studies one may find the truth for himself. The technology is therefore not expounded as something to believe, but something to do."	”
—L. Ron Hubbard

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/2

“	But of course their doctrine states that the purpose of a suit is to harass, not to win, so from that perspective they hurt us all. They've had a real chilling effect on journalism, both before and after my piece.	”
—Richard Behar

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/3

“	Why Scientology is a religion? Religion is about the spirit, and Scientology deals with the spirit. We are in the tradition of the much older religions -- Buddhism, Hinduism -- helping the person as a spiritual being improve himself. That is what religion is about. That is why this is a religion. It doesn't fall into any other field.	”
—David Miscavige

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/4

“	And this really directly affects my relationship with people, with individuals around me, with my loved ones, and also with audiences.	”
—Chick Corea

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/5

“	The cutting edge on such battles is often the Church of Scientology..They have very well honed procedures and tactics to remove information that they find objectionable.	”
—Jonathan Zittrain

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/6

“	You can't drive past an accident, because as a Scientologist you are the only one who can help.	”
—Tom Cruise

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/7

“	Almost all the information in the show is taken from their own literature..We thought that the best way to satirize the Church of Scientology was to let the Church speak for itself.	”
—Alex Timbers

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/8

“	I felt great and I got rid of some stuff that I didn't realize that I was dragging around. And I said, "Whoa, I think I've become a Scientologist."	”
—Isaac Hayes

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/9

“	This is how they suck you in, they offer these innocuous-seeming self-improvement courses for 40 bucks, then they start to interest you in Dianetic auditing..It's a kind of crack psychotherapy.	”
—David S. Touretzky

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/10

“	What was most incredible about being with him [L. Ron Hubbard] was that he made you feel that you were important..He didn't in any way promote himself or his own self-importance. He was very, very loving and had the widest range of knowledge and experience that you could possibly imagine -- he'd studied everything.	”
—Mike Rinder

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/11

“	Scientology promotes not watching the news. It keeps you inside a Truman Show where you're totally unaware of things. It's like your own thinking gets shut down and you get used to not considering anything that might be critical of Scientology.	”
—Tory Christman

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/12

“	I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be.	”
—Werner Erhard

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/13

“	But we’re friends with Penn Jillette, and Showtime wouldn’t let him do an episode of Bullshit! on Scientology..And hearing other people say, "You can’t do that,"—you can only say "You can’t do that" so many times to Matt and me before we’re gonna do it..So we realized we had to do it, and now that we’ve done it, now it’s like we’ve sort of opened the floodgates. People will be less scared.	”
—Trey Parker

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/14

“	I took a couple of courses. One of them was in communication, and I learned some things about communication that really got my act going...They have a lot of very good technology. That’s what really appealed to me about it. It’s not faith-based. It’s all technology. And I’m obsessed with technology.	”
—Jerry Seinfeld

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/15

“	The trade secrets that they're trying to protect, all that science fiction space opera stuff at the end of the road, it's already on the hard load--hard drives of millions of people. In other words, the cat's out of the bag. So anybody that cares to investigate this organization are just a few keystrokes away from finding the truth-- and it's out there.	”
—Mark Ebner

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/16

“	The one thing that was really cool about L. Ron Hubbard was that he really got the concept that if people united, and not in some airy-fairy way, but if they united and they put their, you know, muscle and brawn together and they worked really hard, you could create a better civilization.	”
—Kirstie Alley

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/17

“	I knew Ron Hubbard before he ever started Scientology. I was in a writing group with him in Greenwich Village and he kept saying, "You know, the only way to make any money, you can't do it with pulp writing, you got to, you start a religion." And nobody took him very seriously.	”
—Lyle Stuart

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/18

“	I'm part of a, of a frontier in a way, you know, that very few people ever get to be part of. Like a pioneer in many, in many ways, and I've, I've seen my efforts come to fruition.	”
—John Travolta

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/19

“	They [the Guardian's Office] were L. Ron Hubbard’s intelligence agents. That was their purpose; and indeed an intelligence specialist in the U.S. has said that they were as effective as the CIA.	”
—Jon Atack

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Portal:Scientology/Quotes/20

“	The Celebrity Centre is just like, you know, the stable datum of like, growth and sanity, and growing as an artist, and, um, it's just like I'm always safe when I come here.	”
—Jenna Elfman

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