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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.

Bill Watterson

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
Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Boys Inscrutable Omen
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Differences Inability Praying Strength
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
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Burden Historical Terrible
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
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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Book Jobs Meaningful
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Painting Solve Tigers Vans
Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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Argue Shaves Six Years
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Genius Misunderstood Thinking
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Grow Up Ideas People
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Decision Desire Motivational Ourselves Thinking
We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Funny Inspirational Science
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
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Allow Current History Need Prejudices Versions

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