"Without water the desert is nothing but a grave ..."

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Source : Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

Mildred Cable

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“Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.”

Source : Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.5, Innovations and Information
“In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology is not simply a matter of seat belts, safe toys, safe air, water and food, additive-free baby foods, or improved television programming. These are all important issues, but to stop here is to forget that today's children will soon be adults. Technological decisions made today will determine, perhaps irrevocably, the kind of physical and social world we bequeath them and the kind of people they become.”

Source : Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.”
“Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.”
“There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.”
“There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.”
“My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.”
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

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