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With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.

Bill Watterson

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
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
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Happiness Inspirational Life
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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Decision Desire Motivational Ourselves Thinking
That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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Bad Perseverance Remarkable Worse
I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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Behavior Encouragement Friendship Modification
If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Different Inevitable Media Needs
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Faces People Possums
Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Looks never Prepared
Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
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Really Running Stupid
I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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Around Circle Hobbies Know Screaming
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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Artist Doubt Taken Talking
Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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Speaking Talking Thinking
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
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing

With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.

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