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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 motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

Bill Watterson

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.
BILL WATTERSON

Around Figures Hang Right Secret Tricks
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Grow Up Ideas People
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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Book Jobs Meaningful
Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Dance Hard Maybe Number Special Tell
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
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Architect Form Function
Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Hobbes Progress Scientific Progress
So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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Graduation Real World
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Creating Good Life Thinking
Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Disappointment Friendship Harder Swearing
My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Lips Moving Thinking
MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Mom Thirsty Water
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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Behavior Encouragement Friendship Modification
No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Less Organized Sports
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON

Snow Winning

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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