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actually BELIEVE you will possess it.

You may as well know, also that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization
down to the present, was a dreamer.

Christianity is the greatest potential power in the world today, because its found-
er was an intense dreamer who had the vision and the imagination to see realities
in their mental and spiritual form before they had been transmuted into physical
form.

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your
bank balance. Never, in the history of America has there been so great an oppor-
tunity for practical dreamers as now exists. The six year economic collapse has
reduced all men, substantially, to the same level. A new race is about to be run.
The stakes represent huge fortunes which will be accumulated within the next ten
years. The rules of the race have changed, because we now live in a CHANGED
WORLD that definitely favors the masses, those who had but little or no opportu-
nity to win under the conditions existing during the depression, when fear para-
lyzed growth and development.

We who are in this race for riches, should be encouraged to know that this changed
world in which we live is demanding new ideas, new ways of doing things, new
leaders, new inventions, new methods of teaching, new methods of marketing,
new books, new literature, new features for the radio, new ideas for moving pic-
tures.

Back of all this demand for new and better things, there is one quality which one
must possess to win, and that is DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, the knowledge
of what one wants, and a burning DESIRE to possess it.

The business depression marked the death of one age, and the birth of anoth-
er. This changed world requires practical dreamers who can, and will put their
dreams into action. The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be
the pattern-makers of civilization.

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We who desire to accumulate riches, should remember the real leaders of the
world always have been men who harnessed, and put into practical use, the intan-
gible, unseen forces of unborn opportunity, and have converted those forces, [or
impulses of thought], into sky-scrapers, cities, factories, airplanes, automobiles,
and every form of convenience that makes life more pleasant.

Tolerance, and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today.