It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
BILL WATTERSONSo the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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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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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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I don’t think you’ve ever invited me to… Calvin’s Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin’s Mom: You’re contagious! You can’t have anyone over to play!
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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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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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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