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Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.

— 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.

Thinking and Destiny (1946)

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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