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Q You must have many tricks and devices by which you gain and hold control ofthe human mind.

A To be sure, I employ tricks and devices to control human thought. My devices are clever ones too.

Q Go ahead and describe your clever tricks, Your Majesty.

A One of my cleverest device...

Q. Will you tell me how you go about your job of preparing human minds so you can control them?

A I have countless ways of gaining control of human minds while they are still on the earth plane. My greatest weapon is poverty. I deliberately discourage people from accumu- lating material wea...

-Do not confuse the word "belief" with the word "wish." The two are not the same. Everyone is capable of"wishing" for financial, material, or spiritual advantages, but the element of faith is the only sure power by which a wish may be translated into a belief, and a beliefinto reality.

Q That is a fine idea, Your Majesty. Start by telling me where you live. Then describe your physical appearance.

A My physical appearance? Why, my dear Mr. Earthbound, I have no physical body. I would be handicapped by such an encumbrance as those in which you earthbound creatures live. I c...

They represent every race and creed, every religion.

-Q.Whoareyourgreatestenemiesonearth,YourMajesty?

A All who inspire people to think and act on their own initia- tive are my enemies. Such men as Socrates, Confucius, Voltaire, Emerson, Thomas Paine, and Abraham Lincoln. And you are not doing me any good either.

As this book is an interview between Napoleon Hill and the Devil where the devil(Our inner dark self) is interviewed by Hill.

Background of this book:

Outwitting the Devil is a work of fiction that was written in 1938 by Napoleon Hill, which was considered too controversial to be pub...