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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.

Bill Watterson

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
We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Funny Inspirational Science
Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Looks Other Real Zombie
Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Buttons Funny Light
I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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Little Surreal Trying
With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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Decision Kind Ourselves Recognize
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
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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Detours Failure Resources Wells
I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Refuse Wonder World
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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Desire Life Positive
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Adulthood Childhood Spoiling
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
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Common Ignore Plenty Sense
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
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Frustration Life Like Running

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