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Thank you. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier, published in 1926.

In Proverbs, it says that without vision the people perish.

This bit of ancient wisdom does not refer to good eyesight. It was the eyes

of the mind that counted in the days of old, just as they do today. Without them, we have just so

much power as a driven ox. We are worth only a little more than they. But given vision, imagination,

the ability to visualize conditions and things a month or a year ahead, and there is no limit to our

value or capabilities. The locomotive, the steamboat, the automobile, the airplane,

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