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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.

Bill Watterson

Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Buttons Funny Light
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Burden Historical Terrible
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Painting Solve Tigers Vans
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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Idea Packing Percent Prostituted
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
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
You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Afford Ignorant Knowledge Least Paralyzing
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Dark Imagine Thinking
That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Being Country Differences Happiness Happy
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
Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Dad Morning Three
Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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Speaking Talking Thinking
We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Funny Inspirational Science
If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Examine Fun Garden Life

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