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What’s Your QQ? #284

Published September 2, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald

Who said?

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.”

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day.  It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.”  ~Bill Dodds

 (Dodds has written several humor books.)

 

 

 

 

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What’s Your QQ? #276

Published July 8, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald.

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.” — Mignon McLaughlin

 (McLaughlin, 1913-1983, wrote several volumes of “The Neurotic’s Notebook.”)


 


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What’s Your QQ? #239

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” — Albie Sachs

 (Sachs was a South African judge.)


 


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What’s Your QQ? #237

BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.”—Hodding Carter

 (Carter, 1907-1972, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern journalist.)

 


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