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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.

Bill Watterson

My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Lips Moving Thinking
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
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
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Differences Inability Praying Strength
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Ignorance Learning Waste
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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Generation Running World
As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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Congratulations Forever Long
If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Different Inevitable Media Needs
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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Good Luck Lucky Rockets
Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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Footstep Important Made Matter Precious
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Clever Funny Time
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Adulthood Childhood Spoiling
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
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Direction Events Knowable Order Prejudice

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.

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