"The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city."

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“Spirtual does not mean divorced from the physical, earthly realm. The Earth is one of the most divine forms in all creation.”
“I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.”
“For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.”
“That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.”
“Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.”
“It's wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.”
“Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of children. Just as family therapists today find that child abuse often functions to hold families together as a way of solving their emotional problems, so, too, the routine assault of children has been society's most effective way of maintaining its collective emotional homeostasis.”
“I hope it won't take long.”

Source : "The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner". Book by Eugene Paul Wigner edited by Alvin M. Weinberg and Alfred M. Perry, November 1, 1992.

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