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Chapter 15 Part 3 · Think and Grow Rich | Book Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You are listening to Think and Grow Rich, written by
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  Speaker 1: Napoleon Hill. This is an independent edition containing the original
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  Speaker 1: or endorsed by the Napoleon Hill Foundation. We hope you enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: The Devil's Workshop The Seventh Basic Evil In addition to
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  Speaker 1: the six basic fears, there is another evil by which
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  Speaker 1: people suffer. It constitutes a rich soil in which the
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  Speaker 1: seeds of failure grow abundantly. It is so subtle that
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  Speaker 1: its presence often is not detected. This affliction cannot properly
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  Speaker 1: be classed as a fear. It is more deeply seated
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  Speaker 1: and more often fatal than all of the six fears.
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  Speaker 1: For want of a better name, let us call this
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  Speaker 1: evil susceptibility to negative influences. Men who accumulate great riches
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  Speaker 1: always protect themselves against this evil. The poverty-stricken never do.
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  Speaker 1: Those who succeed in any calling must prepare their minds
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  Speaker 1: to resist the evil. If you are reading this philosophy
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  Speaker 1: for the purpose of accumulating riches, You should examine yourself
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  Speaker 1: very carefully to determine whether you are susceptible to negative influences.
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  Speaker 1: If you neglect this self-analysis, you will forfeit your right
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  Speaker 1: to attain the object of your desires. Make the analysis searching.
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  Speaker 1: After you read the questions prepared for this self-analysis, hold
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  Speaker 1: yourself to a strict accounting in your answers. Go at
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  Speaker 1: the task as carefully as you would search for any
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  Speaker 1: other enemy you knew to be awaiting you in ambush.
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  Speaker 1: and deal with your own faults as you would with
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  Speaker 1: a more tangible enemy. You can easily protect yourself against
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  Speaker 1: highway robbers because the law provides organized cooperation for your benefit.
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  Speaker 1: But the seventh basic evil is more difficult to master
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  Speaker 1: because it strikes when you are not aware of its presence,
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  Speaker 1: when you are asleep, and while you are awake. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: its weapon is intangible because it consists of merely a
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  Speaker 1: state of mind. This evil is also dangerous because it
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  Speaker 1: strikes in as many different forms as there are human experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it enters the mind through the well-meant words of
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  Speaker 1: one's own relatives. At other times, it bores from within
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  Speaker 1: through one's own mental attitude. Always it is as deadly
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  Speaker 1: as poison, even though it may not kill as quickly.
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  Speaker 1: How to Protect Yourself Against Negative Influences To protect yourself
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  Speaker 1: against negative influences, whether of your own making or the
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  Speaker 1: result of the activities of negative people around you, recognize
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  Speaker 1: that you have a willpower and put it into constant
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  Speaker 1: use until it builds a wall of immunity against negative
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  Speaker 1: influences in your own mind. Recognize the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: and every other human being are, by nature, lazy, indifferent,
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  Speaker 1: and susceptible to all suggestions which harmonize with your weaknesses.
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  Speaker 1: Recognize that you are, by nature, susceptible to all the
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  Speaker 1: six basic fears, and set up habits for the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of counteracting all these fears. Recognize that negative influences often
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  Speaker 1: work on you through your subconscious mind, therefore they are
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  Speaker 1: difficult to detect, and keep your mind closed against all
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  Speaker 1: people who depress or discourage you in any way. Clean
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  Speaker 1: out your medicine chest, throw away all pill bottles, and
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  Speaker 1: stop pandering to colds, aches, pains, and imaginary illness. Deliberately
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  Speaker 1: seek the company of people who influence you to think
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  Speaker 1: and act for yourself. Do not expect troubles, as they
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  Speaker 1: have a tendency not to disappoint. Without doubt, the most
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  Speaker 1: common weakness of all human beings is the habit of
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  Speaker 1: leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.
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  Speaker 1: This weakness is all the more damaging, because most people
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  Speaker 1: do not recognize that they are cursed by it, and
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  Speaker 1: many who acknowledge it neglect or refuse to correct the
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  Speaker 1: evil until it becomes an uncontrollable part of their daily habits.
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  Speaker 1: To aid those who wish to see themselves as they
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  Speaker 1: really are, the following list of questions has been prepared.
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  Speaker 1: Read the questions and state your answers aloud so you
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  Speaker 1: can hear your own voice. This will make it easier
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  Speaker 1: for you to be truthful with yourself. Self-analysis test questions.
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  Speaker 1: Do you complain often of feeling bad, and if so,
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  Speaker 1: what is the cause? Do you find fault with other
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  Speaker 1: people at the slightest provocation? Do you frequently make mistakes
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  Speaker 1: in your work, and if so, why? Are you sarcastic
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  Speaker 1: and offensive in your conversation? Do you deliberately avoid the
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  Speaker 1: association of anyone, and if so, Why? Do you suffer
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  Speaker 1: frequently with indigestion? If so, what is the cause? Does
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  Speaker 1: life seem futile and the future hopeless to you? If so, why?
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  Speaker 1: Do you like your occupation? If not, why? Do you
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  Speaker 1: often feel self-pity? And if so, why? Are you envious
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  Speaker 1: of those who excel you? To which do you devote
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  Speaker 1: most time? thinking of success or of failure? Are you
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  Speaker 1: gaining or losing self-confidence as you grow older? Do you
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  Speaker 1: learn something of value from all mistakes? Are you permitting
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  Speaker 1: some relative or acquaintance to worry you? If so, why?
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  Speaker 1: Are you sometimes in the clouds and at other times
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  Speaker 1: in the depths of despondency? Who has the most inspiring
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  Speaker 1: influence upon you? What is the cause? Do you tolerate
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  Speaker 1: negative or discouraging influences which you can avoid? Are you
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  Speaker 1: careless of your personal appearance? If so, when and why?
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  Speaker 1: Have you learned how to drown your troubles by being
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  Speaker 1: too busy to be annoyed by them? Would you call
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  Speaker 1: yourself a spineless weakling if you permitted others to do
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  Speaker 1: your thinking for you? Do you neglect internal bathing until
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  Speaker 1: auto-intoxication makes you ill-tempered and irritable? How many preventable disturbances
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  Speaker 1: annoy you, and why do you tolerate them? Do you
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  Speaker 1: resort to liquor, narcotics, or cigarettes to quiet your nerves?
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  Speaker 1: If so, why do you not try willpower instead? Does
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  Speaker 1: anyone nag you, and if so, for what reason? Do
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  Speaker 1: you have a definite major purpose, and if so, what
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  Speaker 1: is it, and what plan have you for achieving it?
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  Speaker 1: Do you suffer from any of the six basic fears?
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  Speaker 1: If so, which ones? Have you a method by which
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  Speaker 1: you can shield yourself against the negative influence of others?
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  Speaker 1: Do you make deliberate use of auto-suggestion to make your
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  Speaker 1: mind positive? Which do you value most, your material possessions
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  Speaker 1: or your privilege of controlling your own thoughts? Are you
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  Speaker 1: easily influenced by others against your own judgment? Has today
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  Speaker 1: added anything of value to your stock of knowledge or
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  Speaker 1: state of mind? Do you face squarely the circumstances which
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  Speaker 1: make you unhappy or sidestep the responsibility? Do you analyze
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  Speaker 1: all mistakes and failures and try to profit by them,
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  Speaker 1: or do you take the attitude that this is not
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  Speaker 1: your duty? Can you name three of your most damaging weaknesses?
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing to correct them? Do you encourage
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  Speaker 1: other people to bring their worries to you for sympathy?
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  Speaker 1: Do you choose, from your daily experiences, lessons or influences
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  Speaker 1: which aid in your personal advancement? Does your presence have
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  Speaker 1: a negative influence on other people as a rule? What
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  Speaker 1: habits of other people annoy you most? Do you form
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  Speaker 1: your own opinions or permit yourself to be influenced by
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  Speaker 1: other people? Have you learned how to create a mental
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  Speaker 1: state of mind with which you can shield yourself against
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  Speaker 1: all discouraging influences? Does your occupation inspire you with faith
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  Speaker 1: and hope? Are you conscious of possessing spiritual forces of
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  Speaker 1: sufficient power to enable you to keep your mind free
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  Speaker 1: from all forms of fear? Does your religion help you
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  Speaker 1: to keep your own mind positive? Do you feel it
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  Speaker 1: your duty to share other people's worries? If so... Why?
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  Speaker 1: If you believe that birds of a feather flock together,
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  Speaker 1: what have you learned about yourself by studying the friends
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  Speaker 1: whom you attract? What connection, if any, do you see
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  Speaker 1: between the people with whom you associate most closely and
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  Speaker 1: any unhappiness you may experience? Could it be possible that
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  Speaker 1: some person whom you consider to be a friend is,
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  Speaker 1: in reality, your worst enemy because of his negative influence
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  Speaker 1: on your mind? By what rules do you judge who
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  Speaker 1: is helpful and who is damaging to you? Are your
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  Speaker 1: intimate associates mentally superior or inferior to you? How much
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  Speaker 1: time out of every 24 hours do you devote to A.
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  Speaker 1: Your occupation B. Sleep C. Play and relaxation D. Acquiring
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  Speaker 1: useful knowledge I. Plain waste Who among your acquaintances A.
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  Speaker 1: Encourages you most B. What is your greatest worry? Why
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  Speaker 1: do you tolerate it? When others offer you free, unsolicited advice,
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  Speaker 1: do you accept it without question or analyze their motive? What,
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  Speaker 1: above all else, do you most desire? Do you intend
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  Speaker 1: to acquire it? Are you willing to subordinate all other
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  Speaker 1: desires for this one? How much time daily do you
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  Speaker 1: devote to acquiring it? Do you change your mind often?
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  Speaker 1: If so, why? Do you usually finish everything you begin?
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  Speaker 1: Are you easily impressed by other people's business or professional titles,
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  Speaker 1: college degrees, or wealth? Are you easily influenced by what
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  Speaker 1: other people think or say of you? Do you cater
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  Speaker 1: to people because of their social or financial status? Whom
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  Speaker 1: do you believe to be the greatest person living? In
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  Speaker 1: what respect is this person superior to yourself? How much
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  Speaker 1: time have you devoted to studying and answering these questions?
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  Speaker 1: At least one day is necessary for the analysis and
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  Speaker 1: the answering of the entire list. If you have answered
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  Speaker 1: all these questions truthfully, you know more about yourself than
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  Speaker 1: the majority of people. Study the questions carefully, come back
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  Speaker 1: to them once each week for several months, and be
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  Speaker 1: astounded at the amount of additional knowledge of great value
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  Speaker 1: to yourself you will have gained by the simple method
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  Speaker 1: of answering the questions truthfully. If you are not certain
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  Speaker 1: concerning the answers to some of the questions, seek the
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  Speaker 1: counsel of those who know you well, especially those who
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  Speaker 1: have no motive in flattering you, and see yourself through
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  Speaker 1: their eyes. The experience will be astonishing. You have absolute
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  Speaker 1: control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts
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  Speaker 1: known to man. It reflects man's divine nature. This divine
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  Speaker 1: prerogative is the sole means by which you may control
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  Speaker 1: your own destiny. If you fail to control your own mind,
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  Speaker 1: you may be sure you will control nothing else. If
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  Speaker 1: you must be careless with your possessions, let it be
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  Speaker 1: in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate.
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  Speaker 1: Protect and use it with the care to which divine
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  Speaker 1: royalty is entitled. You were given a willpower for this purpose. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: there is no legal protection against those who, either by
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  Speaker 1: design or ignorance, poison the minds of others by negative suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: This form of destruction should be punishable by heavy legal penalties.
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  Speaker 1: because it may and often does destroy one's chances of
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  Speaker 1: acquiring material things which are protected by law. Men with
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  Speaker 1: negative minds tried to convince Thomas A. Edison that he
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  Speaker 1: could not build a machine that would record and reproduce
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  Speaker 1: the human voice, because, they said, no one else had
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  Speaker 1: ever produced such a machine. Edison did not believe them.
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  Speaker 1: He knew that the mind could produce anything the mind
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  Speaker 1: could conceive and believe. and that knowledge was the thing
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  Speaker 1: that lifted the great Edison above the common herd. Men
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  Speaker 1: with negative minds told F.W. Woolworth he would go broke
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  Speaker 1: trying to run a store on five-and-ten-cent sales. He did
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  Speaker 1: not believe them. He knew that he could do anything,
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  Speaker 1: within reason, if he backed his plans with faith. Exercising
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  Speaker 1: his right to keep other men's negative suggestions out of
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  Speaker 1: his mind, he piled up a fortune of more than
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  Speaker 1: a hundred million dollars. Men with negative minds told George
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  Speaker 1: Washington he could not hope to win against the vastly
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  Speaker 1: superior forces of the British, but he exercised his divine
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  Speaker 1: right to believe. Therefore, this book was published under the
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  Speaker 1: protection of the Stars and Stripes, while the name of
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  Speaker 1: Lord Cornwallis has been all but forgotten. Doubting Thomases scoffed
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  Speaker 1: scornfully when Henry Ford tried out his first crudely built
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  Speaker 1: automobile on the streets of Detroit. Some said the thing
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  Speaker 1: never would become practical. Others said no one would pay
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  Speaker 1: money for such a contraption. Ford said, I'll belt the
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  Speaker 1: earth with dependable motor cars. And he did. His decision
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  Speaker 1: to trust his own judgment has already piled up a
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  Speaker 1: fortune far greater than the next five generations of his
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  Speaker 1: descendants can squander. For the benefit of those seeking vast riches...
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  Speaker 1: Let it be remembered that practically the sole difference between
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  Speaker 1: Henry Ford and a majority of the more than 100,000
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  Speaker 1: men who work for him is this. Ford has a
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  Speaker 1: mind and controls it. The others have minds which they
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  Speaker 1: do not try to control. Henry Ford has been repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: mentioned because he is an astounding example of what a
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  Speaker 1: man with a mind of his own and a will
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  Speaker 1: to control it can accomplish. His record knocks the foundation
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  Speaker 1: from under that time-worn alibi, I never had a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Ford never had a chance either, but he created an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity and backed it with persistence until it made him
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  Speaker 1: richer than Croesus. Mind control is the result of self-discipline
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  Speaker 1: and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you.
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  Speaker 1: There is no hallway compromise. The most practical of all
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  Speaker 1: methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping
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  Speaker 1: it busy with a definite purpose backed by a definite plan.
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  Speaker 1: Study the record of any man who achieves noteworthy success,
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  Speaker 1: and you will observe that he has control over his
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  Speaker 1: own mind. Moreover, that he exercises that control and directs
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  Speaker 1: it toward the attainment of definite objectives. Without this control,
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  Speaker 1: success is not possible. 57. Famous Alibis by Old Man
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  Speaker 1: If People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait
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  Speaker 1: in common. They know all the reasons for failure and
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  Speaker 1: have what they believe to be airtight alibis to explain
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  Speaker 1: away their own lack of achievement. Some of these alibis
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  Speaker 1: are clever, and a few of them are justifiable by
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  Speaker 1: the facts. But alibis cannot be used for money. The
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  Speaker 1: world wants to know only one thing. Have you achieved success?
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  Speaker 1: A character analyst compiled a list of the most commonly
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  Speaker 1: used alibis. As you read the list, examine yourself carefully.
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  Speaker 1: and determine how many of these alibis, if any, are
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  Speaker 1: your own property. Remember too, the philosophy presented in this
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  Speaker 1: book makes every one of these alibis obsolete. If I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a wife and family, if I had enough pull,
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  Speaker 1: if I had money, if I had a good education,
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  Speaker 1: if I could get a job, if I had good health,
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  Speaker 1: if I only had time, If times were better. If
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  Speaker 1: other people understood me. If conditions around me were only different.
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  Speaker 1: If I could live my life over again. If I
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  Speaker 1: did not fear what they would say. If I had
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  Speaker 1: been given a chance. If I now had a chance.
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  Speaker 1: If other people didn't have it in for me. If
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  Speaker 1: nothing happens to stop me. If I were only younger.
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  Speaker 1: If I could only do what I want. If I
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  Speaker 1: had been born rich. If I could meet the right people.
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  Speaker 1: If I had the talent that some people have. If
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  Speaker 1: I dared assert myself. If I only had embraced past opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: If people didn't get on my nerves. If I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to keep house and look after the children. If
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  Speaker 1: I could save some money. If the boss only appreciated me.
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  Speaker 1: If I only had somebody to help me. If my
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  Speaker 1: family understood me. If I lived in a big city.
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  Speaker 1: If I could just get started. If I were only free.
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  Speaker 1: If I had the personality of some people. If I
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  Speaker 1: were not so fat. If my talents were known. If
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  Speaker 1: I could just get a break. If I could only
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  Speaker 1: get out of debt. If I hadn't failed. If I
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  Speaker 1: only knew how. If everybody didn't oppose me. If I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have so many worries. If I could marry the
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  Speaker 1: right person. If people weren't so dumb. If my family
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  Speaker 1: were not so extravagant. If I were sure of myself.
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  Speaker 1: If luck were not against me. if I had not
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  Speaker 1: been born under the wrong star, if it were not
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  Speaker 1: true that what is to be will be, if I
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  Speaker 1: did not have to work so hard, if I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: lost my money, if I lived in a different neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: if I didn't have a past, if I only had
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  Speaker 1: a business of my own, if other people would only
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  Speaker 1: listen to me, if, and this is the greatest of
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  Speaker 1: them all, I had the courage to see myself as
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  Speaker 1: I really am, I would find out what is wrong
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  Speaker 1: with me and correct it. Then I might have a
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  Speaker 1: chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from
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  Speaker 1: the experience of others. for I know that there is
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  Speaker 1: something wrong with me, or I would now be where
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  Speaker 1: I would have been if I had spent more time
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  Speaker 1: analyzing my weaknesses and less time building alibis to cover them.
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  Speaker 1: Building alibis with which to explain away failure is a
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  Speaker 1: national pastime. The habit is as old as the human
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  Speaker 1: race and is fatal to success. Why do people cling
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  Speaker 1: to their pet alibis? The answer is obvious. They defend
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  Speaker 1: their alibis because they create them. A man's alibi is
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  Speaker 1: the child of his own imagination. It is human nature
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  Speaker 1: to defend one's own brainchild. Building alibis is a deeply
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  Speaker 1: rooted habit. Habits are difficult to break, especially when they
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  Speaker 1: provide justification for something we do. Plato had this truth
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  Speaker 1: in mind when he said, The first and best victory
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  Speaker 1: is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is,
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  Speaker 1: of all things, the most shameful and vile. Another philosopher
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  Speaker 1: had the same thought in mind when he said, It
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  Speaker 1: was a great surprise to me when I discovered that
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  Speaker 1: most of the ugliness I saw in others was but
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  Speaker 1: a reflection of my own nature. It has always been
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  Speaker 1: a mystery to me, said Albert Hubbard, why people spend
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  Speaker 1: so much time deliberately fooling themselves by creating alibis to
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  Speaker 1: cover their weaknesses. If used differently, this same time would
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  Speaker 1: be sufficient to cure the weakness. Then no alibis would
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  Speaker 1: be needed. In parting, I would remind you that life
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  Speaker 1: is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time.
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  Speaker 1: If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly,
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  Speaker 1: your men will be wiped off the board by time.
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  Speaker 1: You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision. Previously,
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  Speaker 1: you may have had a logical excuse for not having
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  Speaker 1: forced life to come through with whatever you asked, but
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  Speaker 1: that alibi is now obsolete. because you are in possession
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  Speaker 1: of the master key that unlocks the door to life's
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  Speaker 1: bountiful riches. The master key is intangible, but it is powerful.
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  Speaker 1: It is the privilege of creating, in your own mind,
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  Speaker 1: a burning desire for a definite form of riches. There
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  Speaker 1: is no penalty for the use of the key, but
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  Speaker 1: there is a price you must pay if you do
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  Speaker 1: not use it. The price is failure. There is a
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  Speaker 1: reward of stupendous proportions if you put the key to use.
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  Speaker 1: It is the satisfaction that comes to all who conquer
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  Speaker 1: self and force life to pay whatever is asked. The
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  Speaker 1: reward is worthy of your effort. Will you make the
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  Speaker 1: start and be convinced? If we are related, said the
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  Speaker 1: immortal Emerson, we shall meet. In closing, may I borrow
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  Speaker 1: his thought and say, if we are related, we have,
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  Speaker 1: through these pages, met. The End You have been listening
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  Speaker 1: to Think and Grow Rich, written by Napoleon Hill. We
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