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what our modern magicians may not yet accomplish ? Pick out 

 the things that are impossible and be sure that they will come to 

 pass. If you would equip yourself with a first class working 

 outfit for a fine little prophet simply pick out the things that can't 

 be done, prophesy them, and they will be done ! And yet in spite 

 of all that has been done, hardly anything has been done. So, if 

 you are dead serious about success and business betterment, seek 

 out something that can't be done and do it. The man who does 



"Impossibili- only what can be done can be done without : but the man who 

 ties" the Sue- ... , . . ^11 -,- 11 A^ 



cessful Man's specializes on doing what cant be done is indispensable. \Ve grow 



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and progress only as we do what can't be done. Is something im- 

 possible? Then let's do it! We have only to make up our minds 

 about it and the thing can be done. Nobody would deny for in- 

 stance that we shall not soon have found some other use for moon- 

 light than that of merely hauling the tides around the world, or 

 making love beneath. We may, indeed, pretty soon be manu- 

 facturing moonlight out of compressed starlight, and using it to 

 heat our houses with, peddling it about the streets from door to 

 door, like milk in bottles/ Imaginary? Impossible? Maybe, but 

 typical exactly of the true spirit of aggressiveness, the spirit of 

 Salesmanship, "doing the thing that can't done." 



