Ben Keighran famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

  • Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.

  • I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  • I Can't win the World Cup alone

  • There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

  • I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

  • When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

  • Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

  • The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

  • LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

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