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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






2. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






3. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






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






5. To find yourself - think for yourself.






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






7. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






8. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.






9. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






10. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






11. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.






12. There are painters 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.






13. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






14. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






15. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.






16. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.






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






18. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.






19. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.






20. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






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






22. 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.






23. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






24. Dwight Eisenhower said: Every gun that is made - every warship launched - _____ signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






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






26. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.






27. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






28. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






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






30. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






31. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






32. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____






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






34. Chance favors the prepared mind.






35. 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.






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






37. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






38. 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.






39. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






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






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






42. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






43. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






44. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






45. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






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






47. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






48. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






49. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






50. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.







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