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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.

Bill Watterson

The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Brain Hobbies Way
Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Appreciate Late Miracle
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
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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Ignorant Men Risk
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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Numbers Play Special
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Clever Funny Time
Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Beautiful Grow Up Thinking
Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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Assembly Baby Cheaper Dad Light Sears
I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Dessert Food Funny Vegetarian
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Buttons Funny Light
Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Good Friend More Money Needs
Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Delusion Faces Life People Preposterous
Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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Avenue Cynical Hollywood Poised Raised Scary
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
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

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