Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and conti…

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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2013). Selected Literary Essays, p.105, Cambridge University Press
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