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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .

Bill Watterson

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
Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Careers Happy Person
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Football Sports Thinking
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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Long Memories Outside School Successful Term
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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Good Luck Lucky Rockets
It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Beautiful Life Success
Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Hobbes Progress Scientific Progress
Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Looks Other Real Zombie
I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Kids Publication School Yearbook
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Snow Winning
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Clever Funny Time
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Esteem Expectations Secret Self
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Built Character Regretted
I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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Adulthood Growing Thinking

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