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






2. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






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






4. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






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






6. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






7. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






8. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.






9. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






10. Well done is better than well said.






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






12. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.






13. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.






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






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






16. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






23. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






24. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






25. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






26. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






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






28. Wisdom begins in wonder.






29. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






30. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






31. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little - not those who know much - who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.






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






33. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






34. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____






35. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






36. 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.






37. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






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






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. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






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






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






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






44. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






45. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.






46. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






47. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






48. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- _____ Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






49. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____






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







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