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






2. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






3. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






4. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






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






6. Bill Gates said: To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






7. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






8. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






9. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






10. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






11. 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.






12. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.






13. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






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






15. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






16. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.






17. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






18. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.






19. ____ said: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






24. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






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






26. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






27. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






28. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles - but most of them never happened.






29. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






30. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated de






31. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






32. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






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






34. Peace begins with a smile.






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






36. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






37. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






38. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






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






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






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






42. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.






43. 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.






44. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






45. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






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






47. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






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






49. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.






50. 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.