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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!

Bill Watterson

Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Built Character Regretted
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Failure Headed Resources Success Truth
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
My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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Problem Tiny Trouble
If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Examine Fun Garden Life
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
[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,
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Dad Letting Mom Wondering
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… Am I scary, or what?
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Avenue Cynical Hollywood Poised Raised Scary
Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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Clock Funny Leader Roger
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Common Ignore Plenty Sense
They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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Around Figures Hang Right Secret Tricks
The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Hobbies Jobs Secrets
But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Demand Kind Sacrifice
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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Detours Failure Resources Wells
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing

Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!

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