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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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'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.






2. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






3. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






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






5. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






6. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






7. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.






8. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






9. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






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






11. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






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






13. 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.






14. Without music - life would be a mistake.






15. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






16. 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.






17. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____






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






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






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






21. However beautiful the strategy - you should occasionally look at the results.






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






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






24. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






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






26. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.






27. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






28. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






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






30. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.






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






32. 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.






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






34. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






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






36. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






37. I can resist everything except temptation.






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






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






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






41. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






42. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






43. 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.






44. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






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






46. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






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






48. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






49. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






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







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