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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.

Bill Watterson

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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Class League Superhero
I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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Higher Paper Standards
I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Homework Negotiation Procrastinating Skills Use
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Bad Helping Mood
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Looks never Prepared
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Football Sports Thinking
[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!
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Looks Scrabble Vowels
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Fun Real Smug Wisely
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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Day Every Ideas Motivation New School
You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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Army Handy Knife Swiss Time
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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Long Memories Outside School Successful Term
Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Funny Inspirational Life
Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Good Friend More Money Needs
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

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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