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What’s Your QQ? #300

Published December 23, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald

Who wrote?

“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.”

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” – Harlan Miller

 (Miller, 1897-1968, wrote his “Over the Coffee” column in the Des Moines Register for nearly four decades.)

 

 

 

 

 

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What’s Your QQ? #291

Published October 21, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald

Who said?

“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” (see quote #10)

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff – it is a palliative rather than a remedy.” – Peter De Vries

 (De Vries, 1910-1993, was an American editor and novelist.)

 

 

 

 

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What’s Your QQ? #289

Published October 7, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald

Who said?

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” (Quote #3)

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Simplicity is really hard.”~Jonathan Ive

 (The London-born Ive is a leading designer of Apple products.)

 

 

 

 

 

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What’s Your QQ? #269

Published May 13, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald.

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.”  ~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

 (Rajneesh, 1931-1990, was an Indian” leader of a spiritual movement in several countries, as well as in Oregon during the early 1980s.)




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