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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. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






2. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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






4. 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.






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






6. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.






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






8. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.






9. 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.






10. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






11. Aristotle said: Hope _____






12. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.






13. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.






14. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






15. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____






16. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






17. 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.






18. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.






19. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






20. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.






21. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






22. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____






23. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






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






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






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






27. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






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






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






30. 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.






31. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.






32. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____






33. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






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






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






36. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






37. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






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






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






40. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






41. 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.






42. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.






43. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






44. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






45. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






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






47. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






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






49. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






50. Pablo Picasso said: _____ 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.