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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.

Bill Watterson

Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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Experience Pointless Suddenly Time
There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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Different Gatekeepers Gone Prospects Voice
That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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Problem Science Trying Unimaginable
I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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Enjoy School Smock Sunday
Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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Argue Shaves Six Years
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Ignorance Learning Waste
I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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Around Circle Hobbies Know Screaming
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
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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Day Every Ideas Motivation New School
That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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Bad Perseverance Remarkable Worse
I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Dust Say Significant Specks
Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Demand Ecstasy Enough
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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Battle Disrespect Drama InterAction
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Allow Current History Need Prejudices Versions
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Curiosity Ideas Play Years

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