“A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.”

—  L. Ron Hubbard , book Science of Survival

Source: Science of Survival (1951), p. 171

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