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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.

Bill Watterson

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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Beautiful Grow Up Thinking
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
Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
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Believe Evil Men
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Humorous Running Solid Water
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Inspirational Life Peace
We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Funny Inspirational Science
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
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
It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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Art Gratifying People Someone Write Writing
No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Less Organized Sports
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Funny Future Humorous
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Dessert Food Funny Vegetarian
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
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Direction Events Knowable Order Prejudice

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