For instance, given Varoufakis's resignation, we could interpret the man in different ways:
1) As a person who chose not to be in the arena(in TR's words).
2) A man who was already in the arena but already failed while daring greatly.
3) A man who was already in the arena and arrived at triumph of high achievement, by allowing the Greek people to challenge the Troika with a referendum. And his resignation is just another triumphal move.
I do agree tho that filling comment threads with open-to-interpretation quotes is not very constructuve. Still one here one there can make the issue less black and white - which is good IMHO.
That this might be taken to imply that the long-dead author of the quote which I used for its poetry somehow endorses a position in contemporary political debate is so obviously absurd that I cannot imagine a HN reader doing so.