“Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.”
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“Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.”
― The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
― The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
“In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.”
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“I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.
- Such as?
- Procrastination and rationalization.”
― Calvin and Hobbes
- Such as?
- Procrastination and rationalization.”
― Calvin and Hobbes
“Calvin: Trick or Treat!
Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be?
Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!
...Boy, am I scary or what?”
― It's a Magical World
Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be?
Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!
...Boy, am I scary or what?”
― It's a Magical World
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