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






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






3. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.






4. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____






5. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






6. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






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






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






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






10. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: _____ let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






11. Well done is better than well said.






12. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






13. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






14. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Pe






15. Well done is better than well said.






16. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.






17. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.






18. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






19. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






20. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!






21. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






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






23. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






24. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____






25. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






26. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






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






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






29. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






30. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.






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






32. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






33. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






34. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.






35. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






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






37. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.






38. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






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






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






41. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive






42. What is now proved was once only imagined.






43. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.






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






45. He is richest who is content with the least.






46. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






47. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






48. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






49. 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.






50. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.