Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
BILL WATTERSONHobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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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.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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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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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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