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Famous Quotes Trivia

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.






2. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






3. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.






4. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






5. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






6. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






7. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






8. I can resist everything except temptation.






9. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






10. Bill Gates said: To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






11. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






12. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






13. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






14. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






15. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






16. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






17. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






18. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






19. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






20. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






21. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...






22. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.






23. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h






24. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






25. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






26. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.






27. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____






28. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






29. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.






30. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






31. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






32. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






33. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.






34. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






35. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






36. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






37. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






38. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






39. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






40. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.






41. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.






42. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.






43. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.






44. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






45. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.






46. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






47. Well done is better than well said.






48. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.






49. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






50. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.







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