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Those who are not in office would do as the present officials do, or even worse, if they had the opportunity. Corrupt officials can hold office and sinecures only so long as the thoughts of the people are depraved.

— Harold W. Percival Thinking and Destiny (1946)

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Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.

Thinking and Destiny (1946)

A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.

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You will not be, you cannot be, satisfied with anything less than Self-knowledge.

Thinking and Destiny (1946)

For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.

Thinking and Destiny (1946)

This is the law: Every thing existing on the physical plane is an exteriorization of thought, which must be balanced through the one who issued the thought, and in accordance with that one’s responsibility, at the conjunction of time, condition, and place.

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