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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?

Bill Watterson

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
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
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
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
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Life Needs Surprise
I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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Allowed Hello Rattle Say Stop Swear Words
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Dark Imagine Thinking
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging
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
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
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Snow Winning
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Best Friend Friendship Inspirational
It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Light Sleep Summer
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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Forest Intelligent Reading Thinking
Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Built Character Regretted

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