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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. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.






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






3. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






4. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






5. Time makes more converts than reason.






6. Wit is well-bred insolence.






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






8. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






9. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






10. 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.






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






12. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.






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






14. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






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






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






17. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






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






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






20. Where the spirit does not work with the hand - there is no art.






21. 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.






22. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






23. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover






24. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






25. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.






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






27. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






28. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






29. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






30. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.






31. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






32. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.






33. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.






34. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.






35. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____






36. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






37. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.






38. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






39. Pablo Picasso said: _____ who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






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






41. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






42. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






43. 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.






44. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.






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






46. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






47. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






48. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






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






50. 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