to overcome Quotes

“Pik, a young Mayan Pok-a-tok player, challenges the powerful rain god Chac to a game to overcome a terrible drought that is said to last the year. ”

“The main thesis of this book is that it does much more than that: the idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity—activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man.”