"Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons."

-- Ted Simon

#Children Quotes #Wife Quotes #Parent Quotes

“One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.”
“I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.”
“No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God”
“Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)”
“Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being..... doing.... having, or feeling.”
“Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the "unreasonable effectiveness" of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.”

Source : "Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers". Book by Murray Gell-Mann and Harald Fritzsch, 2010.
“When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher. Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter.... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.”
“We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.”

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