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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests ..
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Bill Watterson |
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People pay more attention when they think you're up to something.
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Bill Watterson |
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I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!
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humor
dessert
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Bill Watterson |
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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memories
long-term
regrets
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Bill Watterson |
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Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a word! It doesn't even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It's a worm found in New Guinea! Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I'm looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I'll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What's your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957."
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scrabble
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Bill Watterson |
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I think life should be more like TV. I think all of life's problems ought to be solved in 30 minutes with simple homilies, don't you? I think weight and oral hygiene ought to be our biggest concerns. I think we should all have powerful, high-paying jobs, and everyone should drive fancy sports cars. All our desires should be instantly gratified. Women should always wear tight clothing, and men should carry powerful handguns. Life overall sho..
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Bill Watterson |
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Bill Watterson |
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse
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Bill Watterson |
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If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
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Bill Watterson |
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
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Bill Watterson |
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Mom's not feeling well. So I'm making her a get well card." "That's thoughtful of you."
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Bill Watterson |
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The center snaps the ball to the quarterback!" "No he doesn't!" "He doesn't?" "NO! Secretly, he's the quarterback for the other team! He keeps the ball!" "A traitor!" "Calvin breaks for the goal." "Wheeee! He's at the 30... the 20... the 10! Nobody can catch him!" "Nobody wants to! Your running toward your own goal!" "Huh?!" "When I learned that you were a spy, I switched goals. This is your goal and mine's hidden!" "Hidden?!" "You'll never..
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Bill Watterson |
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Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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religion
truth
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Bill Watterson |
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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
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Bill Watterson |
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Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.
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Bill Watterson |
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I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
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Bill Watterson |
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Bill Watterson |
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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Bill Watterson |
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I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.
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kids
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calvin
calvin-and-hobbes
hobbes
comic
genes
comics
genetics
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Bill Watterson |
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You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
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education
student-accountability
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Bill Watterson |
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I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin
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Bill Watterson |
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Bill Watterson |
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Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination. -Calvin
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Bill Watterson |
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Bill Watterson |
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Bill Watterson |
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Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table.
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trick
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Bill Watterson |
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Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.
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Bill Watterson |
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It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!
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Bill Watterson |
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Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
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Bill Watterson |
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I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.
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Bill Watterson |
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Bill Watterson |
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Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet"
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television
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?
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Bill Watterson |
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I wonder where we go when we die?
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Bill Watterson |
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You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.
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Bill Watterson |
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The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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humor
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Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to... Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play!
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Bill Watterson |
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Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that t..
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Bill Watterson |
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Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak! ...Boy, am I scary or what?
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Bill Watterson |
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But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!
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Bill Watterson |
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I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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Bill Watterson |
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I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
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Bill Watterson |
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It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.
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