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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

Bill Watterson

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Failure Headed Resources Success Truth
I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Bumper Funny Mind Sticker Wander
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
I don’t think you’ve ever invited me to… Calvin’s Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin’s Mom: You’re contagious! You can’t have anyone over to play!
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Anymore Country Mom People Play Think
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
Someday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.
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Beans Place Someday Stupid Thinking
So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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Graduation Real World
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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Artist Jobs Thinking
I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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Behavior Encouragement Friendship Modification
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
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
All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Looks Media Thinking
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Best Friend Friendship Inspirational
I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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Lettering Reflection Way Writing
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Life Needs Surprise
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

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