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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.

Bill Watterson

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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Class League Superhero
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging
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
The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Hobbies Jobs Secrets
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
Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Boys Inscrutable Omen
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
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Funny Inspirational Witty
They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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Around Figures Hang Right Secret Tricks
It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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Incinerated People Religious
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Life Needs Surprise
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Bad Helping Mood
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Cute Friday Life Sunday
I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Detours Ideas Recognizing Success Trying
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
A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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Avoiding Hobbies Slips

I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.

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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.

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