Scientific Progress goes boink?
BILL WATTERSONVan Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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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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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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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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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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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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