James Allen
1864 – 1912 · United Kingdom · New Thought, Literature
Wrote As a Man Thinketh, the movement's most reprinted book.
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- Florence Scovel Shinn
1871 – 1940 · New Thought, Literature
The thought-as-cause axiom underlies Shinn's spoken-word practice.
- Napoleon Hill
1883 – 1970 · New Thought, Economics
As a Man Thinketh states the character-and-thought premise Hill operationalised.
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