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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.

Bill Watterson

You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Chemistry Design Ingredients
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Best Friend Friendship Inspirational
We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Funny Inspirational Science
You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Afford Ignorant Knowledge Least Paralyzing
Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Done Looks Secret
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Culture Excess Good Life
Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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Dad Dark Daylight Mean Truth
What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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Cheat Game Idiotic Lose Play Sneaky Some Undermanned
Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Change Different Funny Life
It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Done Hard Surprising
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Common Ignore Plenty Sense
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Creating Good Life Thinking
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Painting Solve Tigers Vans
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
And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Admission Anyone Exciting Gate More
No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Less Organized Sports

I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.

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