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Famous Quotes Trivia

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






2. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






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






4. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.






5. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






6. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.






7. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






8. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






9. 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. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro






10. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






11. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






12. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






13. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.






14. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






15. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.






16. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






17. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






18. 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






19. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






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






21. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






22. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.






23. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






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






25. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.






26. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






27. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






28. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






29. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






30. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






31. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






32. Aristotle said: Hope _____






33. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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34. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






35. ____ said: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.






36. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






37. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.






38. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






39. Without music - life would be a mistake.






40. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






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






42. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






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






44. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






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






46. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






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






48. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.






49. Albert Einstein said: 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. _____






50. I am not young enough to know everything.







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