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What’s Your QQ? #267

Published April 29, 2012 in the Monterey County Herald.
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BONUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”  ~Oscar Ameringer

 (Ameringer, 1870-1943, was an American socialist writer and editor.)

 


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What’s Your QQ? #254

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“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.” – Niels Bohr

 (Bohr, 1885-1962, was a Nobel Prize-winning Danish Physicist.)

 


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What’s Your QQ? #236

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“Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people’s laundry.  I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy.  I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth.”  ~Robert Byrne

 (Byrne authored a number of books, including five collections of humorous quotations.) 


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What’s Your QQ? #234

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“Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.” – Stanley Arnold

 (Arnold was an American businessman.)

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