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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

Bill Watterson

Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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Mean Opiates Television
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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Forest Intelligent Reading Thinking
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
Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Dance Hard Maybe Number Special Tell
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
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Issues Reality Special
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Contact None Sometimes Think Universe
It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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Lobotomy Needs Saws
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Bad Helping Mood
With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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Decision Kind Ourselves Recognize
I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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Higher Paper Standards
I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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Little Surreal Trying
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Inspirational Life Peace
Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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Appreciating Giving Thinking
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

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