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What’s Your QQ? #266

Published April 22, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald.
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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

 

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”   -Rainer Maria Rilke

 (Rilke, 1875-1926, was a German writer and poet. He is considered one of the greatest lyric poets of modern Germany.)

 

 


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What’s Your QQ? #250

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.”  – Judith Crist

 (Crist, now 89, was one of New York’s foremost film and theater critics.)



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What’s Your QQ? #244

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.” Dr. Lee DeForest (1957)

 (Dr. DeForest, 1873-1961, was a major contributor to the inventions of radio, television, and motion picture sound.)

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What’s Your QQ? #240

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.” –Gil Stern

 (The identity of Stern is unclear.)

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