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Just about all real intellectual activity starts from the understanding that *there is a problem here*, especially in things we take for granted.
-- Arnold Zwicky

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
-- Arnold Glasgow

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
-- Arnold Bennett

Labeling something as sarcasm utterly undercuts the effect. The whole point about sarcasm is that it's risky; it depends on your hearer getting the literal meaning and then seeing that you can't mean that so you must mean something else and working out what that other thing must be. Your hearer has to do some interpretive work, and that work is the effect.
-- Arnold Zwicky

"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
-- Arnold Edinborough