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






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






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






4. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






5. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.






6. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






7. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)






8. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






9. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






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






11. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive






12. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






13. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






14. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.






15. A witty saying proves nothing.






16. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.






17. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






18. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






19. 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.






20. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






21. Francis Bacon said: A wise man will make more opportunities - _____






22. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






23. He is richest who is content with the least.






24. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____






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






26. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






27. 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.






28. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






29. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






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






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






32. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.






33. The chief business of the American people is business.






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






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






36. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






37. 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.






38. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






39. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






40. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.






41. I am not young enough to know everything.






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






43. 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.






44. Wisdom begins in wonder.






45. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






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






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






48. I think; therefore I am.






49. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.






50. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.