"If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam."

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Source : "Big Sexy Does the Impossible" by Matthew Hoh, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2016.

Tom Seaver

#Winning Quotes #Vietnam Quotes #World Quotes

“Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.”
“I'm neither giving up nor giving in.”

Source : "Charlton Heston Makes Statement About Alzheimer's". "CNN News" with Fredricka Whitfield, transcripts.cnn.com. August 9, 2002.
“All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.”
“You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.”
“The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.”
“To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.”
“Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

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