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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. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






2. To be - or not to be - That is the question.






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






4. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.






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






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






7. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






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






9. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






10. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






11. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






12. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






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






14. An unexamined life is not worth living.






15. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






16. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






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






18. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






19. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






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






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






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






23. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






24. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






25. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






26. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






27. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






28. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






29. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...






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






31. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.






32. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






33. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.






34. 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






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






36. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






37. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






38. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____






39. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






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






41. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






42. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






43. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.






44. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!






45. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






46. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






47. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






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






49. 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.






50. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.