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
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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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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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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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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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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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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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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