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






2. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.






3. 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.






4. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.






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






6. Time makes more converts than reason.






7. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.






8. 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.






9. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






10. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






11. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






12. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






13. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






14. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






15. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






16. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.






17. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






18. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






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






20. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






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






25. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






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






27. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.






28. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)






29. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.






30. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.






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






32. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






33. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






34. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






35. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.






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






37. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.






38. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






39. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






40. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






41. Aristotle said: Hope _____






42. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 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 derelicts. Pe






43. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






44. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






45. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






46. 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.






47. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






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






49. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






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