Steve Ball

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Winston Churchill

“We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.”
― Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

“Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.”
― tom wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“Reality is what you can get away with.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Reality Is What You Can Get Away With