I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
BILL WATTERSONIn 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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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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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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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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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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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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