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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. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






2. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






3. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






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






5. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






6. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






7. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






8. Time makes more converts than reason.






9. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






10. 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. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st






11. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






12. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






13. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






14. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.






15. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






16. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






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






18. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____






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






20. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






21. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






22. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






23. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






24. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.






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






26. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






27. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






28. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






29. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






30. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____






31. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






32. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






33. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.






34. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






35. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.






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






37. Without music - life would be a mistake.






38. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.






39. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






40. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.






41. Well done is better than well said.






42. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!






43. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.






44. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






45. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.






46. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.






47. True friends stab you in the front.






48. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






49. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






50. I think; therefore I am.







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