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HOW TO OWN YOUR OWN MIND – Take Charge of Your Thoughts · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: When these chapters have been mastered, you will know how
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  Speaker 1: to own your own mind. First of all, find out
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  Speaker 1: what you would like most to do, then lay out
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  Speaker 1: plans to begin doing it, and begin write where you
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  Speaker 1: are to carry out your plans. Recognize now and forever
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  Speaker 1: that whatever you get from life will depend upon what
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  Speaker 1: you give to life. The combined wisdom and genius of
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  Speaker 1: mankind cannot conceive of an argument against the liberty of thought.
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  Speaker 1: Think before acting, not afterward. Those who discover their dormant
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  Speaker 1: creative vision and put it to work will make jobs
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  Speaker 1: for themselves, just as others before them have done. The
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  Speaker 1: others will go on down the dusty road to failure
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of an abundance of opportunities, just as
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  Speaker 1: this class always is gone. Two things are essential for
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  Speaker 1: the unfolding and use of creative vision. One is a
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  Speaker 1: willingness to work, and the other is a definite motive
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  Speaker 1: sufficient to inspire one to go the extra mile with
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  Speaker 1: the right mental attitude. Search as you may, but you
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  Speaker 1: cannot find anything to take the place of these. Work
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  Speaker 1: and motive by themselves are not sufficient guarantees of enduring success.
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  Speaker 1: Ideas are the beginnings of all achievements. They are the
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  Speaker 1: seedlings of all progress. There is no such reality as
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  Speaker 1: something for nothing or something for less than its true value.
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  Speaker 1: After a man has attracted favorable attention to himself by
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  Speaker 1: the habit of going the extra mile, he is then
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  Speaker 1: in a position to adopt a definite major purpose and
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  Speaker 1: to begin expressing it in action through a definite plan.
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  Speaker 1: Obsessional desire is the state of mind which serves to
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  Speaker 1: clear the mind of fear and doubt and self imposed limitations,
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  Speaker 1: thereby opening the way for that state of mind known
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  Speaker 1: as faith. When you adopt a definite major purpose, you
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  Speaker 1: must focus all your emotional feeling on the object of
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  Speaker 1: that purpose, in a spirit of absolute belief in its attainment.
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  Speaker 1: Let your daily slogan be you can do it if
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  Speaker 1: you believe you can by some strange power with which
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  Speaker 1: no one is familiar. The subconscious mind acts directly and
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  Speaker 1: immediately upon the thoughts which are based upon absolute belief.
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  Speaker 1: All great leaders are able believers. There are certain basic
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  Speaker 1: requirements of success in which one must believe in order
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  Speaker 1: to succeed. Some of them are belief in infinite intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: belief in oneself, belief in one's chosen associates, belief in
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  Speaker 1: right over wrong. That right will prevail if one persists
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  Speaker 1: in believing in right, belief in the proven laws and
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  Speaker 1: facts of science, belief in the power of the mind
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  Speaker 1: to connect itself with infinite intelligence and become their irresistible.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest power available to mankind is an intangible power,
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  Speaker 1: neither the nature nor the source of which is understood.
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  Speaker 1: It is man's only irresistible power. Stated in one sentence,
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  Speaker 1: it is the capacity of men to believe in something
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  Speaker 1: just that alone, without any modifying definitions, the simple, clearly
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  Speaker 1: demonstrable power of belief, the power that has worked miracles
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  Speaker 1: down through the ages. Not all the scientific knowledge known
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  Speaker 1: to mankind can cope with this intangible form of power.
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  Speaker 1: It has nothing in common with logic or reason, and
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  Speaker 1: it overrides both at will. It is a law unto itself,
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  Speaker 1: and the strangest feature of this power is that it
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  Speaker 1: can be appropriated and used by the humblest person. The
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  Speaker 1: same is by the most educated and renowned. Go as
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  Speaker 1: far back as he please, and you will discover that
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  Speaker 1: the strong men, the great men, the successful men, have
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  Speaker 1: been those who believed in something. The world belongs to
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  Speaker 1: men who believe it always has, and it always will.
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  Speaker 1: In organizing your mind power, be sure to include in
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  Speaker 1: your plans a definite program of belief in the things
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  Speaker 1: you wish to become real. Let your belief be positive,
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  Speaker 1: Believe in something, not against something, Remembering meanwhile, that belief
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  Speaker 1: is contagious, that belief in one thing tends to open
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  Speaker 1: the way for belief in many things, while unbelief works
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  Speaker 1: in the same manner. No one can rise above mediocrity
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  Speaker 1: unless he believes in his own ability to become and
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  Speaker 1: to remain self determining. This organized mind can never be free.
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  Speaker 1: The mind develops and becomes strong only through action. Even
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  Speaker 1: belief is useless unless it is followed by some sort
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  Speaker 1: of action appropriate to its nature and purpose. Out of
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  Speaker 1: the night that covers me black is the pit from
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  Speaker 1: pole to pole. I thank whatever Gods may be for
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  Speaker 1: my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance. I
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  Speaker 1: have not winced nor cried aloud under the bludgeoning of chance.
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  Speaker 1: My head is bloody but unbowed. Beyond this place of
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  Speaker 1: wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the menace of the years finds and shall
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  Speaker 1: find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate,
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  Speaker 1: how charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master
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  Speaker 1: of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: one may become the captain of his soul if he
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  Speaker 1: will take possession of his own mind, organize it, and
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  Speaker 1: express it in terms of organized endeavor. Behind definiteness of purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Men may lose all their worldly possessions, including sound health.
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  Speaker 1: They may be cheated, imposed upon, maligned, and slandered by others.
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  Speaker 1: Or they may be unjustly thrown into prison and deprived
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  Speaker 1: of their physical liberty. But they still may think their
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  Speaker 1: own thoughts and use their own mind power without the
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  Speaker 1: consent of any other person. Whatever man desires he may
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  Speaker 1: acquire with the aid of his power of thought, provided
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  Speaker 1: he will organize his thoughts and apply his thought power
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  Speaker 1: in a spirit of belief in his own ability to
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  Speaker 1: make it serve his needs. Thought applied in a spirit
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  Speaker 1: of belief on Lock's prison doors and gives men their freedom.
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  Speaker 1: It develops body resistance and frees men from disease where
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  Speaker 1: everything else fails. It supplants poverty with opulence. It dispels fear, worry,
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  Speaker 1: and discouragement and fills their places with hope, faith, and
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  Speaker 1: peace of mind. It works with the speed of lightning,
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  Speaker 1: requiring nothing but a determined will to put it into action.
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  Speaker 1: Opinions are the freest thing in the world, and most
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  Speaker 1: of them are worth exactly what they cost nothing. Accurate
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  Speaker 1: thinkers admit no one to do their thinking for them.
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  Speaker 1: They ascertain the sources of such facts as they desire,
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  Speaker 1: and make wise use of the sources for their guidance.
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  Speaker 1: Learn to be cautious and to use your own judgment,
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  Speaker 1: no matter who is trying to influence you, before being
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  Speaker 1: influenced too far by your emotions. Give your reasoning faculty
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  Speaker 1: your head a chance to pass judgment on the business
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  Speaker 1: at hand. The head is always more dependable than the
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  Speaker 1: emotions the heart. The person who forgets this generally lives
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  Speaker 1: to regret his neglect. Let your mind be always an
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  Speaker 1: eternal question mark, not in the sense of being a
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  Speaker 1: confirmed skeptic who believes in nothing, but as a cautious
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  Speaker 1: person who wishes to be accurate in his thinking. Question
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  Speaker 1: everything and everyone until you satisfy yourself that you are
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  Speaker 1: dealing with facts. Do this quietly in the silence of
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  Speaker 1: your own mind, the emotions of love and sex. Either
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  Speaker 1: of these emotions may easily override facts and render the
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  Speaker 1: faculty of reason useless. Don't let them do it. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, revenge, greed, vanity, egotism, procrastination,
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  Speaker 1: and the desire for something for nothing. These emotions frequently
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  Speaker 1: distort facts. Do you have been given three important fact
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  Speaker 1: finding departments of the mind, namely, one, the power of will,
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  Speaker 1: two the faculty of reason, and free the faculty of conscience.
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  Speaker 1: These departments of the mind become strong and reliable only
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  Speaker 1: through discipline, training, and use. Give them a chance to
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  Speaker 1: pass on everything you wish to accept as facts. Form
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  Speaker 1: the habit of relying upon their decisions. Be very careful
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  Speaker 1: about accepting as facts anything that originates in these three
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  Speaker 1: areas of the mind one the five senses, two the emotions,
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  Speaker 1: and three the memory. All three of these sources are faulty,
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  Speaker 1: and they require the strictest of self discipline before they
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  Speaker 1: become dependable. Gain control of your mind, Force it to
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  Speaker 1: feed upon thoughts of your own choosing, and you will
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  Speaker 1: then be, in reality, the master of your fate, the
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  Speaker 1: captain of your soul. Repetition of thought creates thought habits
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  Speaker 1: in the mind which cause the mind to go right
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  Speaker 1: on working on an idea without one's conscious effort. Definiteness
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  Speaker 1: of purpose, backed with a form of persistence that assumes
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  Speaker 1: the proportions of an obsession, is the greatest of all stimulants,
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  Speaker 1: of both the synthetic and the creative forms of imagination.
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  Speaker 1: The mind of man is provided with a power which
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  Speaker 1: forces the subconscious mind to accept and to act upon
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  Speaker 1: obsessional desires that are definitely planned. Every adversity brings with
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  Speaker 1: it the seed of an equivalent benefit. A man generally
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  Speaker 1: finds whatever he is looking for if he gives his
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  Speaker 1: desire obsessional proportions. To get more from life, one must
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  Speaker 1: give more. This is a truism from which no man
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  Speaker 1: can escape. Nature fixed it in all natural laws. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: it is not a man made rule. Apparently, the subconscious
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  Speaker 1: concerns itself first with those thoughts which have become habits,
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  Speaker 1: and especially if the thoughts have been strongly emotionalized by
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  Speaker 1: a deep and burning desire for their realization. Desire based
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  Speaker 1: on a definite motive is the beginning of all voluntary
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  Speaker 1: thought action associated with individual achievement. The presence in the
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  Speaker 1: mind of an intense desire tends to stimulate the faculty
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  Speaker 1: of imagination with the purpose of creating ways and means
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  Speaker 1: of attaining the object of the desire. If the desire
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  Speaker 1: is persistently held in the mind through repetition of thought,
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  Speaker 1: it is picked up by the subconscious section of the
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  Speaker 1: mind and automatically carried out to its logical conclusion by
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  Speaker 1: the most practical means available. Thoughts are things, said a
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  Speaker 1: great philosopher, and it is significant that thought is one
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  Speaker 1: of the few things an individual may control completely. It
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  Speaker 1: may not be literally true that thoughts are things, but
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  Speaker 1: it is true that thoughts create things, and the things
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  Speaker 1: they create are striking duplicates of the thoughts out of
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  Speaker 1: which they are fashioned. Thought magnetizes one's entire physical body
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  Speaker 1: and attracts to one the outward physical things which harmonize.
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  Speaker 1: Observe that the memory, the five senses, and the emotions
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  Speaker 1: require constant self discipline, that they are not reliable without
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  Speaker 1: the strictest of discipline, and that they need highly organized
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  Speaker 1: attention to bring them under control. This control is obtained
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  Speaker 1: by the exercise of the power of will, through the
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  Speaker 1: adoption of voluntary habits, through the application of self discipline.
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  Speaker 1: Thought can be influenced, controlled, and directed through transmutation toward
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  Speaker 1: a desired end by the development of voluntary habits suitable
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  Speaker 1: for the attainment of any given end. All of man's
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  Speaker 1: achievements begin in the form of thought, organized into plans, aims,
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  Speaker 1: and purposes, and expressed in terms of action. Both the
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  Speaker 1: subconscious and the conscious sections of the mind work in
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  Speaker 1: response to habits, adjusting themselves to whatever habits the individual
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  Speaker 1: may form, whether the habits are voluntary or involuntary. When
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  Speaker 1: habits are once formed, the mind proceeds to carry them
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  Speaker 1: out automatically unless they are modified by other and stronger habits.
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  Speaker 1: The five senses are so untrustworthy that they can be
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  Speaker 1: easily deceived, especially when they function under emotional excitement such
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  Speaker 1: as fear, love, sex, or infact, any of the other
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  Speaker 1: emotions without the balancing influence of the faculty of reason.
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  Speaker 1: We must face the fact that most of that which
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  Speaker 1: we express as our individual belief is but a reflection
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  Speaker 1: of the belief or pretended belief of those nearest us.
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  Speaker 1: If there is one tragedy greater than all others that
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  Speaker 1: can overtake an individual, it is that of being robbed
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  Speaker 1: at birth of his god given right to take possession
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  Speaker 1: of his own mind and use it in his own way.
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  Speaker 1: The mind absorbs any idea to which it is repeatedly submitted,
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  Speaker 1: whether the idea be sound or unsound, right or wrong.
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  Speaker 1: We are here dealing with the real power behind human achievements,
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  Speaker 1: the power that is responsible, through its misuse, for much
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  Speaker 1: human misery, the power that brings success or failure according
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  Speaker 1: to the way it is applied. Let us assume that
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  Speaker 1: we are actually taking a physical picture of the power
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  Speaker 1: of thought, using the mind as the sensitive plate of
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  Speaker 1: the camera and controlled habit as the lens through which
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  Speaker 1: any desired object may be photographed. The plate of the
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  Speaker 1: camera will register any object reflected upon it through the lens.
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  Speaker 1: It does not pick and choose, but registers everything that
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  Speaker 1: is cast upon it, whether good or bad. To make
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  Speaker 1: a clear picture, the lens must be properly focused, and
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  Speaker 1: the object to be photographed must be flooded with the
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  Speaker 1: proper amount of light, all of which depends upon the
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  Speaker 1: skill of the person operating the camera. The picture he
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  Speaker 1: gets will be in exact proportion to his skill in
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  Speaker 1: controlling all these factors. Now, let me shift the scene
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  Speaker 1: from the camera to the human brain and see how
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  Speaker 1: perfectly the two resemble one another in the manner of
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  Speaker 1: their operation. The individual chooses the subject he wishes to
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  Speaker 1: register in the cells of his brain, the brain serving
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  Speaker 1: as the plate of the camera. He calls subject chosen
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  Speaker 1: a definite major purpose. He wants the brain to pick
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  Speaker 1: up a clear picture of the object of that purpose,
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  Speaker 1: register it, and turn it over to his subconscious mind
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  Speaker 1: for translation into its physical reality. Therefore, he proceeds, through
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  Speaker 1: the principle of controlled habit, to place in his conscious
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  Speaker 1: mind a picture of that which he wants. Day by day,
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  Speaker 1: he recreates that picture through controlled habit, recognizing, as this
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  Speaker 1: skilled thinker does, that the mental impulse of thought through
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  Speaker 1: which he is painting the picture in his brain must
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  Speaker 1: be given the right amount of time through repeated exposures
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  Speaker 1: to register, and it must also be accompanied by the
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  Speaker 1: proper proportion of light emotional feeling to enable the brain
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  Speaker 1: to pick up a clear outline of the thought. These
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  Speaker 1: principles will not work merely by one's having read and
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  Speaker 1: understood that they must be put into action. The action
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  Speaker 1: must be persisted in until it becomes fixed habit. I
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  Speaker 1: am repeating this in many different ways, because to overlook
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  Speaker 1: it will mean defeat. Without action, there will be no
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  Speaker 1: controlled habits. Without controlled habits, there will be no dependable
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  Speaker 1: registration in the brain of the picture of that which
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  Speaker 1: one desires. There will be nothing which the subconscious mind
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  Speaker 1: can take over and act upon. The faculty of the
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  Speaker 1: will is the boss of all other departments of the mind.
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  Speaker 1: It can make habits, and it can unmake them. It
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  Speaker 1: can choose aims and purposes, and it can change them.
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  Speaker 1: It can countermand any desire of the emotions, and set
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  Speaker 1: aside any decision of the faculty of reason. The faculty
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  Speaker 1: of the will is the tool with which one paints
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  Speaker 1: a clear picture of that which one desires, and it
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  Speaker 1: does this by presenting that picture in the conscious mind repeatedly.
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  Speaker 1: This repetition of desire or purpose, followed by appropriate action
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  Speaker 1: in carrying out the desire or purpose, is the method
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  Speaker 1: by which controlled habit is formed. If the faculty of
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  Speaker 1: the will is sufficiently determined, as it is when one's
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  Speaker 1: definite major purpose is an obsession, it can and does
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  Speaker 1: call into action every other region of the mind. Organized
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  Speaker 1: thought is a mixture of the power of will and
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  Speaker 1: the power of the emotions properly balanced and directed to
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  Speaker 1: the attainment of definite ends. Disorganized thought is that which
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  Speaker 1: is inspired by the emotions without the modifying influence of
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  Speaker 1: the will. That is emotion without control. That sort of
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  Speaker 1: thought is without value. It may be, and it usually
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  Speaker 1: is very dangerous. It always is dangerous if it is
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  Speaker 1: not modified by the faculty of reason. The faculty of
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  Speaker 1: willpower is the medium that may be used to balance
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  Speaker 1: the relationship between the emotions and the faculty of reason.
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  Speaker 1: Your emotions are not always reliable, and generally they influence
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  Speaker 1: you to reach decisions regardless of facts. You will know
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  Speaker 1: when a habit has been properly established by your own
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  Speaker 1: state of mind and by the results you get from it.
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  Speaker 1: When the habit has been properly developed, you will experience
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  Speaker 1: a feeling of continuous enthusiasm and connection with your plans.
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  Speaker 1: This enthusiasm will drive you during your every conscious moment.
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  Speaker 1: It will even continue driving you through your subconscious mind
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  Speaker 1: while you sleep. Work will no longer be a drudge.
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  Speaker 1: It will be a pleasure in which you will engage
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  Speaker 1: as eagerly as you eat your meals when hungry. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: things will begin to happen outside your own mind that
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  Speaker 1: will give you courage. Your imagination will become keener and
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  Speaker 1: more active. You can work long hours without becoming fatigued.
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  Speaker 1: You will experience better health than you ever had before.
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  Speaker 1: The dark glasses of despair you have been wearing will
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  Speaker 1: change their color, and you will see the whole world
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  Speaker 1: around you through crystal clear glasses of hope and faith.
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  Speaker 1: For you will have changed the entire vibration of your being.
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  Speaker 1: This is no idle promise. I know it will be
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  Speaker 1: realized by you. Defeat may overtake you as it overtakes everyone,
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  Speaker 1: but you will use it as a challenge to greater effort,
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  Speaker 1: because you will have discovered that organized thought is an
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  Speaker 1: irresistible force capable of making stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
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  Speaker 1: How may I ask, could anyone be permanently defeated who
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  Speaker 1: has acquired the ability to transmute every emotion, every feeling,
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  Speaker 1: every fear, and every worry into a constructive, positive, driving
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  Speaker 1: force for the attainment of definite ends. And this is
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  Speaker 1: precisely what organized thought enables one to do. First step
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  Speaker 1: the adoption of a definite major purpose. Second step the
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  Speaker 1: creation of a practical plan for attaining the purpose. Third
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  Speaker 1: step a mastermind, alliance with others whose experienvarience, education, skill,
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  Speaker 1: and influence may be needed. Fourth step immediate action in
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  Speaker 1: carrying out the plan adopted. Observe that all four steps
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  Speaker 1: are well within the possibility of easy control by anyone,
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  Speaker 1: But nothing will happen unless all four steps are taken
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  Speaker 1: and persistently carried out to their logical conclusion. This calls
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  Speaker 1: for controlled habit. It calls for constant application of the
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  Speaker 1: necessary habits until the object desired has been attained. How
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  Speaker 1: inconsistent it is that the only thing over which a
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  Speaker 1: human being has complete control is the one thing which
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  Speaker 1: most people make the least attempt to control. The inconsistency
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  Speaker 1: becomes all the more astounding when one recognizes the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the power of organized thought offers the solution to
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  Speaker 1: all of one's problems, and nothing else. Dots