A quotation from Bill Watterson

HOBBES: A new decade is coming up.

CALVIN: Yeah, big deal! Hmph. Where are the flying cars? Where are the Moon colonies? Where are the personal robots and the zero gravity boots, huh? You call this a new decade?! You call this the future?? Ha! Where are the rocket packs? Where are the disintegration rays? Where are the floating cities?

HOBBES: Frankly, I’m not sure people have the brains to manage the technology they’ve got.

CALVIN: I mean, look at this! We still have the weather?! Give me a break!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1989-12-30)

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#Oklahoma

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(https://www.thedailybeast.com/oklahoma-judge-tosses-reparations-case-from-last-known-tulsa-race-massacre-survivors?ref=home)

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(https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/oscars-angela-bassett-jamie-lee-curtis-b2299366.html?amp)

Angela Bassett praised for ‘real’ reaction after being ‘snubbed’ again at Oscars

Many are supporting ‘Black Panther’ star for not ‘feigning excitement’

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A quotation by Carlin, George

If you’ll scratch a cynic, you’ll find a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian

Interview by Marc Cooper, The Progressive (Jul 2001)

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WIST - Carlin, George | Interview by Marc Cooper, The Progressive (Jul 2001)

If you’ll scratch a cynic, you’ll find a disappointed idealist. A documented case of a phrase Carlin frequently used, though not original with him. Often quoted as "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."

A quotation by Montesquieu, Baron de

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher

Mes Pensées [My Thoughts] (1720-1755)

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WIST - Montesquieu, Baron de | Mes Pensées [My Thoughts] (1720-1755)

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate. Alternate translations: Study has been to me a sovereign remedy against the vexations of...