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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

Bill Watterson

Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Dad Morning Three
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
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
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
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
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Along Around Detroit Enjoy Good Probably Time
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Genius Misunderstood Thinking
On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Cultural Disintegrating Impact Less Money
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Color Crayon Order Perfect Pointy
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
Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Day Seize Throttle Tomorrow
From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Conformity Connect Dots Way
Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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Avenue Cynical Hollywood Poised Raised Scary

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