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What’s Your QQ? #301

Published December 30, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald

Who said?

“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.”

 

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” -Bill Vaughan

 (Vaughn, 1915-1977, wrote a syndicated column for the Kansas City Star for more than thirty years.)

 

 

 

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What’s Your QQ? #298

Published December 9, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald

Who said?

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.”

 

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Doesn’t it seem some days as though other people were put in the world for no other reason than to aggravate you?” – E. W. Howe

 (Howe, 1853-1937, was a novelist and editor known for his iconoclasm and pessimism.)

 

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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)

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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)

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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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