If you don't have anything to say just keep quiet! Provoking a reaction isn't the same as saying something significant. Expressing ideas if you can't make them understood. You're just babling to yourself!


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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner m...
BILL WATTERSON
Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table.
Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE...
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom?
Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.
Calvin: It must be hard to c...
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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a tes...
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We've had a few, but considering the length of the delay, it has not been bad.
BILL WATTERSON
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
BILL WATTERSON
My life needs a rewind/erase button.
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To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.
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Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, bra...
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I hate to subject it to too much analysis, but one thing I have fun with is the rarity of things bei...
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Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet ...
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The timber wolves will be our friends.We'll stay up late and howl,At the moon, till nighttime ends,B...
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Whenever I hear about people trying to rediscover the "child within," I want to scream.
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I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by H...
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Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.
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The kind of girl I was attracted to in school and eventually married.
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. . . it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well t...
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of...
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A REAL job is a job you hate.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if...
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There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is.
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Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to ...
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If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 minutes, than it's probably not worth...
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You can lead people to the truth, but you can't make them understand it.
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How come we play war and not peace?"
"Too few role models.
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Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of cons...
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Now what state do you live in?'
'Denial.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas...
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I was not prepared for the resulting attention. Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and th...
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I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
BILL WATTERSON
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find the inner mo...
BILL WATTERSON
Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these ...
BILL WATTERSON
Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better t...
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By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an i...
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A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be...
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I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
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Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster th...
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It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
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[Calvin: A 6-year-old boy who thinks like a grown-up and fantasizes like a child.] Calvin is very fr...
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