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Famous Quotes Trivia

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.






2. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.






3. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






4. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






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






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






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






8. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.






9. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






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






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






12. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






13. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






14. 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






15. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






16. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






17. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






24. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






25. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






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






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






28. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)






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






30. 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.






31. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






32. 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.






33. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






34. 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.






35. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.






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






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






38. 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.






39. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






40. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






41. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






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






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






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






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






46. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.






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






48. 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.






49. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.






50. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____