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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

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.
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Comic Existentialism Laughing Strips
I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Hate Kids Like
What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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Point Rockets Ships Wearing
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Invention Mother Motherhood
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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Mean Opiates Television
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Genius Misunderstood Thinking
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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Learning Snowflake Thinking Unique
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Law Lawn Over Running Spirit Wall
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Frustration Life Like Running
That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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Problem Science Trying Unimaginable
Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Faster Reading Sweat
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Car Mind Running
MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Mom Thirsty Water
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Bad Helping Mood
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging

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