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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. 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.






2. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






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






4. Bill Gates said: 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. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






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






6. 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.






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






8. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.






9. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






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






11. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






12. Wisdom begins in wonder.






13. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






14. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






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






16. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.






17. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






22. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






23. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






24. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






25. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






26. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.






27. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






28. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.






29. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






30. ____ said: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher - the brewer - or the baker - that we expect our dinner - but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves - not to their humanity but to their self-love - and never talk






31. 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.






32. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






36. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.






37. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.






38. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.






39. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






40. 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.






41. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






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






43. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






44. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






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






46. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






47. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.






48. To be - or not to be - That is the question.






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






50. 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