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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. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






2. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.






3. 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.






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






5. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






6. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






7. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






8. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






9. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.






10. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others - whenever they go.






11. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.






12. 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.






13. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.






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






15. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






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






17. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






18. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






19. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






20. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






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






22. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






23. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






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






25. 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.






26. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






27. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






28. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






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






30. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






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






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






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






34. An unexamined life is not worth living.






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






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






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






38. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






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






40. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.






41. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






42. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






43. If you are going through hell - keep going.






44. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






45. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






46. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






47. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






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






49. 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.






50. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.