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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

Bill Watterson

Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Careers Happy Person
I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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People Relate Related
You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Chemistry Design Ingredients
I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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Behavior Encouragement Friendship Modification
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Accomplish Funny Life Motivational Nothing
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Drugs Missing Rooms Trashed
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
You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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Enemy Maybe Needs Take Yeah
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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Long Memories Outside School Successful Term
Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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Design Grace Produce Spiders
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
They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Law Lawn Over Running Spirit Wall
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Command Information Thorough Useless

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