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What’s Your QQ? #219

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

–Evan Esar

 (Esar, 1899-1995, was an American humorist.)
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What’s Your QQ? #218

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

 “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast/ To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” – William Congreve

 (Congreve, 1670-1729, was an English playwright.)

 

 

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What’s Your QQ? #217

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

 “The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack.” – Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine.

(Madame Swetchine, 1782-1857, was a Russian/French literary figure.)

 

 

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What’s Your QQ? #216

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

 “I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.”

~ Beryl Pfizer

 (Pfizer produced NBC’s Today show in the late 1950s.)

 

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