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






2. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.






3. 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.






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






5. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






6. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






7. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.






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






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






10. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






11. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.






12. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.






13. Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro






14. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____






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






16. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






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






18. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






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






25. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






26. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.






27. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






28. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






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






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. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






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






33. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






34. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






35. 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.






36. Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.






37. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






41. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






42. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






43. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover






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






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






46. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






47. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






48. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






49. 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.






50. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






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