"I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was."

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Source : Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

Vera Brittain

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Victory Quotes

“Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.”
“Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!”
“I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.”
“I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era.”

Source : "Arjen Lucassen: Human Or Intergalatic Space Crusader?". Interview with Igor Italiani, progressiveworld.net. April 2002.
“I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't look where I told them to look, they didn't tell the people I told them to call.”
“There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death”

Source : Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.24, VM eBooks
“The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.”
“The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.”

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