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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. 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






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






3. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.






4. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






5. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






6. 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.






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






8. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.






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






10. 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.






11. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






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






13. 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.






14. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






15. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






16. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.






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






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






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






20. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






21. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






22. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






23. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






24. I think; therefore I am.






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






26. This is like deja vu all over again.






27. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






28. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






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






30. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






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






32. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






33. However beautiful the strategy - you should occasionally look at the results.






34. 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.






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






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






37. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






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






39. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






40. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






41. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






42. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






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






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






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






47. You may delay - but time will not.






48. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






49. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






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