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






2. 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.






3. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






4. 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.






5. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






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






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






8. 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.






9. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






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






11. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






12. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






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






14. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






15. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






16. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






17. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






18. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






22. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






23. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.






24. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.






25. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






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






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






28. If music be the food of love - play on.






29. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.






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






31. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.






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






33. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






34. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






35. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.






36. 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.






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






38. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






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






40. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.






41. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.






42. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.






43. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.






44. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






45. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






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






47. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.






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






49. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






50. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.