“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

— Khalil Gibran

A Handful of Sand on the Shore, as quoted in Alterquest: the Alternative Quest for Answers (2006) by Karen Fiala, p. 127

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Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883–1931

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