Which of these quotes are a quote by Joan Baez

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• What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.
  P. D. James
• To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue…They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
  Confucius
• What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can’t hear what they say
  Logan Pearsall Smith
• The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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• Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
  Samuel Johnson

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2.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Gustave Flaubert

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• Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
• The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it’s author’s explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author’s explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.
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• One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

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3.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Spider-Man

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• Green Goblin We are who we choose to be… now, CHOOSE.
• Ring Announcer What’s your name kid Peter The Human Spider. Ring Announcer That’s it The Human Spider That’s the best you’ve got Peter Yeah. Ring Announcer Well that sucks.
• The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
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4.Who said:It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat.

• Paul Eldridge
• Christine Lane
• Theodore Roosevelt
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5. Which of these quotes are a quote by Sri da Avabhas

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• Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset And he’s carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he’s carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you’re drunk.
  Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
• Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
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• My toughest fight was with my first wife.
  Muhammad Ali
• Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
  Robert Graves

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6.Who said:I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Alfred Victor Vigny
• Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
• Leo Rosten
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7.Who said:Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

• Daniel Defoe
• Sinclair Lewis
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• Budd Schulberg

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8.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Joseph Addison

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• Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
• The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
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• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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9.Who said:To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

• William Jennings Bryan
• Churton Collins
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• Jimmy Breslin

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