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  -- Chesterfield...
• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billing
• You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word.
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• It's like looking for a camel in a haystack.
• There is no one cause more mysterious than another, if we look into it. -- Leigh Hu
• Skinner: Ah, there's nothing more exciting than science.
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• Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.
  -- J. Gustav White...