“Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into action. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels.”

—  Napoleon Hill , book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938)

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