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The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Robert Collier

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Robert Collier
Age: 64 †
Born: 1885
Born: April 19
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Imagination
Creative
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Men

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You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
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See things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don't fret and worry about them. Don't think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
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