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What’s Your QQ? #307

Published February 10, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald

Who said?

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.” –  William Feather

 (Feather, 1889-1981, was an American author and publisher.)

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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? #292

Published October 28, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald

Who was the person who died last week and once said:

“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” (see quote #10)

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.” – Romaine Rolland

 (Rolland, 1866-1944, was a Nobel Prize-winning French writer.)

 

 

 

 

 

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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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