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The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers. ↗

— George Eliot

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In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer. ↗

— Billy West

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In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time. ↗

— George Grosz

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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

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