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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
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. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.






2. If you are going through hell - keep going.






3. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






4. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






5. True friends stab you in the front.






6. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.






7. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






8. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






9. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.






10. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






11. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






12. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






13. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






14. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






15. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






16. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






17. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






18. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.






19. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






20. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






21. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






22. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____






23. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






24. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






25. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






26. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






27. Do - or do not. There is no try.






28. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.






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






30. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






31. This is like deja vu all over again.






32. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






33. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






34. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.






35. Do - or do not. There is no try.






36. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






37. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






38. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






39. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






40. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






41. 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.






42. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.






43. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






44. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






45. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.






46. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






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






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






49. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






50. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet - clumsily or smoothly - the world - it seems - progresses and will progress.