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Famous Quotes Trivia

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  • 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. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






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






3. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






4. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






5. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






6. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.






7. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






8. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






9. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






10. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






11. Pablo Picasso said: _____ who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






12. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






13. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.






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






15. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.






16. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






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






22. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.






23. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






24. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






25. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






26. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






32. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






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






34. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






35. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others - whenever they go.






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






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






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






39. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.






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






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






42. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






43. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






44. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






45. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






46. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.






47. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






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






49. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.






50. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.







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