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#1. A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

Frederick Lenz

#2. I can't contain how enthusiastic I am about working on books for kids.

Peter Lerangis

#3. I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.

Susan B. Anthony

#4. They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

Jonathan Cainer

#5. No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Finally the little flat spoons lay still on the glass plates. Hennie looked rather exhausted, but she pulled on her white gloves again. She had some trouble with her diamond wrist-watch; it got in her way.

Katherine Mansfield

#7. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

#8. Please." His voice was quiet. "I can't stand the thought of losing you. What can I do?

R.K. Lilley

#9. Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.

Steve Erickson

#10. Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

Isaac Asimov

#11. Live cleanly, rightly, beautifully. Take walks and read books, laugh and save money...

A. Ras

#12. Put more than one philosopher together and you'll birth an argument," Erlin commented. "A truism I've observed the world over. In fact, I once saw one argue with himself, it got quite violent in the end.

Anthony Ryan

#13. When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Peter Mullan

#14. I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.

Sue Monk Kidd