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Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Stephen Vincent Benet
Age: 44 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 22
Died: 1943
Died: March 13
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
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I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.
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The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.
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When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.
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One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.
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It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.
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Books are not men and yet they are alive.
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