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What’s Your QQ? #276

Published July 8, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald.
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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? #275

Published July 1, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald.
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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more.” – William S. Plumer

 (Rev. Plumer, 1802-1880, was a Presbyterian minister and writer.)

 



 


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What’s Your QQ? #274

Published June 24, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald.
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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.” — E.R. Beadle

 (The Rev. E. R. Beadle, 1812-1879, was a Presbyterian minister.)

 


 


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What’s Your QQ? #273

Published June 17, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald.
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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.” —Heraclitus

 (Heraclitus, c. 535-c. 475 BC, was a Greek philosopher.)

 




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