Law of Attraction Classics: Suggestion Is Power Sports
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...Have you ever thought something magic was happening in your life - that if you only knew how it worked, you could get more of these great magic things happening? Charles M. Bristol thought so - and wrote a book about it. Here we have the Law of Attraction in many, many examples throughout his personal experiences and history itself. Learn more about how you can get more of the Magic of Believing in your own life from this excerpt......
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This subtle force of the |
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In 1935, Gonzaga University |
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repeated suggestion overcomes |
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(And incidentally, Jacob waxed |
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beat powerful Washington State |
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our reason, acting directly on |
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exceedingly rich. ) |
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13 to 6 in one of the biggest |
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our emotions and our feelings, |
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upset games ever seen in the |
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finally penetrating to the |
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Moses, too, was a master at |
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West. |
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very depths of our |
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suggestion. |
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subconscious minds. |
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For forty years he used it on |
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Gonzaga was a non conference |
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the Israelites, and it took |
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team, while the Washington |
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This is the basic principle of |
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them to the promised land of |
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State team, because of its |
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all successful advertising the |
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milk and honey. |
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great record, was thought to |
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continued and repeated |
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be unbeatable. |
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suggestion that first makes |
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David, following the |
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you believe, after which you |
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suggestive forces operating on |
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Newspapers at the time |
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are eager to buy. |
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him, slew the mighty, heavily |
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reported assistant coach Sam |
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armed Goliath with a pebble |
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Dagley as having declared that |
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In recent years we have |
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from a slingshot. |
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Gonzaga played inspired |
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enjoyed a vitamin spree. |
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football. |
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Joan of Arc, the frail little |
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For centuries tomatoes were |
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Maid of OrlÚans, heard voices |
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He revealed that for half an |
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looked upon as poisonous. |
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and under their suggestive |
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hour before the game, Coach |
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influences became imbued with |
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Mike Pecarovich played "over |
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People dared not eat them |
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the idea that she had a |
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and over" a phonograph record |
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until some fearless person |
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mission to save France. |
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of one of Rockne's most |
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tried them and lived. |
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rousing pep talks. |
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She was able to transmit her |
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Today millions of people eat |
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indomitable spirit to the |
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Years ago, Mickey Cochrane of |
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tomatoes, not knowing that |
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hearts of her soldiers and she |
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the Detroit Tigers literally |
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they were considered unfit for |
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defeated the superior forces |
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drove a second division minded |
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human consumption. |
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of the English at OrlÚans. |
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group of baseball players to |
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the top of the American League |
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Conversely, the lowly spinach |
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William James, father of |
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by using the power of the |
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nearly went into the garbage |
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modern psychology in America, |
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repeated suggestion. |
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pail after the United States |
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declared that often our faith |
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Government declared that it |
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in advance of a doubtful |
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I quote from a newspaper |
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did not contain the food |
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undertaking is the only thing |
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dispatch "Day after day, |
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values attributed to it for |
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that can assure its successful |
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through the hot, hard grind, |
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decades. |
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conclusion. |
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[Cochrane] preached the gospel |
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of victory, impressing on the |
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Millions believed this and |
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Man's faith, according to |
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Tigers the 'continued thought' |
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refused to honor Popeye's |
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James, acts on the powers |
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that the team which wins must |
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favorite dish any longer. |
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above him as a claim and |
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go forward. " |
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creates its own verification. |
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Clearly, the founders of all |
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You see the same force |
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great religious movements knew |
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In other words, the thought |
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actively at work in the |
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much about the power of the |
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becomes literally father to |
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fluctuations of the stock |
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repeated suggestion and gained |
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the fact. |
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market. |
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far reaching results with it. |
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For further illumination of |
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Unfavorable news immediately |
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Religious teachings have been |
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faith and its power, I suggest |
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depresses prices, while |
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hammered into us from birth, |
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that you read the General |
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favorable news raises them. |
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into our mothers and fathers |
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Epistle of James in the New |
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before us and into their |
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Testament. |
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The intrinsic values of stocks |
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parents and their parents |
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are not changed, but there is |
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before them. |
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Actually everyone who has ever |
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an immediate change in the |
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witnessed a football or |
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thinking of the market |
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There's certainly white magic |
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baseball game has seen this |
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operators, which is reflected |
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in that kind of believing. |
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power of suggestion at work. |
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at once in the minds of the |
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holders. |
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Such statements as "What we |
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Knute Rockne, the famous coach |
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don't know won't hurt us" and |
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at Notre Dame, knew the value |
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Not what will actually happen, |
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'Ignorance is bliss" take on |
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of suggestion and used it |
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but what security holders |
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greater significance when you |
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repeatedly, but always suited |
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believe will happen causes |
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realize that only the things |
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his method of applying it to |
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them to buy or sell. |
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you become conscious of can |
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the temperament of the |
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harm or bother you. |
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individual team. |
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In the Depression years and |
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there may be years like them |
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We have all heard the story of |
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On one Saturday afternoon, |
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in the future we saw this same |
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the man who didn't know it |
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Notre Dame was playing in a |
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suggestive force working |
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couldn't be done and went |
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particularly grueling game, |
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overtime. |
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ahead and did it. |
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and at the end of the first |
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half was trailing badly. |
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Day after day we heard |
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Psychologists tell us that as |
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expressions such as, "Times |
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babies we have only two fears |
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The players were in their |
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are hard," "Business is poor," |
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the fear of loud noises and |
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dressing room nervously |
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"The banks are failing," |
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the fear of falling. |
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awaiting Rockne's arrival. |
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"Prosperity hasn't a chance," |
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and wild stories about |
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All of our other fears are |
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Finally the door opened, and |
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business failures on every |
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passed on to us or develop as |
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Rockne came in slowly. |
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hand, until they became the |
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a result of our experiences; |
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national chant. |
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they come from what we are |
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His eyes swept inquiringly |
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taught or what we hear and see. |
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over the squad "Oh, excuse me, |
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Millions believed that |
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I made a mistake. |
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prosperous days would never |
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return. |
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I like to think of men and |
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I thought these were the |
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women as staunch oak trees |
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quarters of the Notre Dame |
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Hundreds, yes thousands, of |
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that can stand firm amid the |
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team. " |
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strong willed men go down |
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many crosscurrents of thought |
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under the constant hammering, |
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that whirl around them. |
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The door closed, and Rockne |
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the continuous tap tapping of |
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was gone. |
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the same fearful thoughts. |
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But far too many people are |
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Puzzled and then stung with |
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like saplings that, swayed by |
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fury, the team went out for |
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Money, always sensitive, runs |
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every little breeze, |
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the second half and won the |
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to cover when fear suggestions |
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ultimately grow in the |
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game. |
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begin to circulate, and |
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direction of some strong wind |
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business failures and |
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of thought that blows against |
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Other writers, too, have |
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unemployment quickly follow. |
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them. |
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explained the psychological |
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methods Rockne used and have |
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We hear thousands of stories |
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The Bible is filled with |
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told how Fielding Yost of |
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of bank failures, huge |
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examples of the power of |
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Michigan, Dan McGuin of |
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concerns going to the wall, |
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thought and suggestion. |
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Vanderbilt, Herbert Crisler of |
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etc. , |
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Princeton, and dozens of |
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Read Genesis, Chapter 30, |
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others used the "magic" of |
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and people readily believe |
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verses 36 to 43, and you'll |
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suggestion to arouse their |
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them and act accordingly. |
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learn that even Jacob knew |
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teams to great emotional |
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their power. |
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heights. |
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There will never be another |
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business depression if people |
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The Bible tells how he |
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Before the Rose Bowl game of |
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generally realize that their |
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developed spotted and speckled |
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1934, the "wise" tipsters |
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own fearful thoughts literally |
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cattle, sheep, and goats by |
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rated the Columbia team as |
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create hard times. |
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placing rods from trees, |
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underdogs. |
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partially stripping them of |
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They think hard times, and |
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their bark so they would |
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They hadn't counted on Coach |
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hard times follow. |
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appear spotted and marked, in |
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Lou Little and his stirring |
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So it is with wars. |
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the watering troughs where the |
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talks to his players day after |
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When peoples of the world stop |
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animals came to drink. |
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day. |
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thinking of depressions and |
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wars, they will become non |
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As you may have guessed, the |
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When the whistle blew for the |
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existent, for nothing comes |
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flocks conceived before the |
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end of the game, the Columbia |
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into our economic sphere |
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spotted rods and brought forth |
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men were the top dogs over the |
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unless we first create it with |
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cattle, "ring straked, |
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"superior" Stanford team. |
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our emotional thinking. |
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speckled, and spotted. " |
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