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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. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.






2. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.






3. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






4. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






5. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






6. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






7. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






8. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.






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






10. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






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






12. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____






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






14. Hope is a waking dream.






15. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.






16. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.






17. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






18. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






19. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.






20. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






21. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






22. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






23. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






24. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.






25. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






26. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






27. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






28. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






29. To find yourself - think for yourself.






30. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






31. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






32. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






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. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






35. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.






36. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






37. 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.






38. Francis Bacon said: A wise man will make more opportunities - _____






39. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






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






41. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






42. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






43. To find yourself - think for yourself.






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






45. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






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






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






48. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.






49. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






50. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.