Things that pass...

No one will believe this who has not lived long and looked hard, so that he knows how suddenly a passion which has for years been wrapped round the whole heart will dry up and wither. Perhaps in the soul, as in the soil, those growths that show the brightest colours and put forth the most overpowering smell have not always the deepest root.

Excerpt from Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)

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The Real Measuring Stick

The day will come when the progress of nations will be judged not by their military or economic strength, not by the splendor of their capital cities and public buildings, but by the well being of their peoples: by their levels of health, nutrition and education and by the protection that is afforded to the growing minds and bodies of their children.

From The Progress of Nations United Nations Children's Fund (1996)

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