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Love, Life, and Work choose

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[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 We want friends, so we scheme and chase ’cross lots after strong people, and lie in wait for good folks.
at across lots, phr.
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 The sergeant hears everything, and his reply to backslack is a straight-arm jab in the jaw.
at backslack (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 The only way they can hope for heaven is through a belief in a barbaric blood bamboozle.
at bamboozle, n.
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 To utilize these stored-up thoughts, you must express them to others; and to be able to express them well your soul has to soar into this subconscious realm [...] In other words, you must ‘come out’ – get out of self – away from self-consciousness, into the region of partial oblivion – away from the boundaries of time and the limitations of space.
at come out, v.
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 His Crabship proved the contract, and Tom got it in the mazzard. [...] The beggar got the money and Minneapolis Tom got the experience.
at crab, n.1
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 The Ex. now is a totally different man from the Ex. just out of his striped suit in the seventies.
at ex, n.1
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 All this whirl is a carefully prepared plan, worked out by expert flim-flammers to addle the reason.
at flim-flammer, n.
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 So the beautiful life they talk of is the bait that covers the hook for gudgeons. You have to accept the superstition.
at gudgeon, n.
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 Now get out of here – hurry, vamose, hike – and be damned to you!
at hike (off), v.
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 Doctor Chapman and his professional rooters may roll in cheap honors, be immune from all useful labor and wax fat on the pay of those who work.
at rooter, n.3
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 The old plan of ‘short time,’ allowing two or three months off from every year for good behavior was a move in the right direction.
at short time, n.
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 Chapman and McIntyre represent the modern types of Phariseeism – spielers and spouters for churchianity.
at spouter, n.1
[US] E. Hubbard Love, Life and Work 🌐 Tom found the name on the pay-roll, and as Tom could not remember how the name got there, he at first thought the pay-roll was being stuffed.
at stuff, v.1
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