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Famous Quotes Trivia

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1. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






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






3. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






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






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






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






7. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






8. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






9. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






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






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






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






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






14. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






15. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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16. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






17. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h






18. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






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






20. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






21. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






22. 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.






23. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






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






25. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






26. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






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






28. A witty saying proves nothing.






29. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.






30. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






31. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






32. 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






33. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






34. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






35. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive






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






37. 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.






38. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






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






40. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






41. 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.






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






43. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






44. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






45. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






46. 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






47. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






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






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






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







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