History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.
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Careful. We don't want to learn from this.Calvin Hobbes
Maybe then I can finish my book.
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We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
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At first, I just randomly turned the pages. Page 95, Volume 1, Calvin and Hobbes are sitting under a tree. Do you think there is a God ... Well, somebody's out to get me.
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Don't walk away I'm trying to apologize you dumb noodleloaf
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I wonder if I can grow fangs when my baby teeth fall out.
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