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What’s Your QQ? #285

Published September 9, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald

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“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you best teach it to dance.”

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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.” – Howard Scott

 (Howard Scott, 1890-1970, was an engineer and one of the founders of the technocratic movement.)

 

 

 

 

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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? #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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What’s Your QQ? #272

Published June 10, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald.
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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.” –Samuel Butler

 (Butler, 1835-1902, was a British satirical novelist who wrote “Erewhon” and “Way of All Flesh.”)

 



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