Which of these quotes are a quote by Joey Adams
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- Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
George Moore
- Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
- We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst — and we will do our best.
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2. Which of these quotes are a quote by Menander
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- I’m tired of Love I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc
- History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
- Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover’s torment.)
Juvenal
- The character of a man is known from his conversations.
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3.Who said:Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination
- George Gordon Byron
- Mark Twain
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- John Andrew Holmes
4.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Richard Hofstadter
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- The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
- If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
- What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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5.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Mitchell Burgess
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- Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it’s because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.
- Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’
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- Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They’re icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
6. Which of these quotes are a quote by Sophocles
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- May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us
Wystan Hugh Auden
- There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Anon.
- Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.
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- Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
- The knowledge of Christ’s love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action.
Edward Bedore
7. Which of these quotes are a quote by Alexandre Dumas
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- It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it
L. M. Montgomery
- Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
Anouk Aimee
- Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
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- You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee
- Carl would have to be fast to beat the stranger. Real fast. ‘Draw,’ said the stranger. Carl went for his gun, but then ‘Hey, where did all these angels come from’
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
8. Which of these quotes are a quote by Mignon McLaughlin
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- The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
- All hope abandon, ye who enter here
Dante Alighieri
- All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You–you alone have the stars as no one else has them
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
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- Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
Germaine Greer
- Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
William Gibson
- There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
Marshall McLuhan
- A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
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- I went to a store and asked if they had anything to put under coasters.
Steven Wright
2. Which of these quotes are a quote by John Wooden
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- Use your enemy’s hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb
- Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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- Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
Unknown
- An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Henrik David Bohr
3. Which of these quotes are a quote by Muammar Qaddafi
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- You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law.
John and Brand, Josh Falsey
- As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee
- I am sailing out along parallel 32.5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. (On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean)
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- Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
4.Who said:(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.
- Theodore Hesburgh
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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- John Cheever
- Aleister Crowley
5. Which of these quotes are a quote by English Proverb
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- Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
Smiley Blanton
- Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
- It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
- This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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- Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
John Dryden
6.Who said:The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.
- S. J. Perelman
- Mary Webb
- Dan Quayle
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7.Who said:Harriet Do you actually like haggis Charlie No, I think it’s repellent in every way. In fact, I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
- George Jean Nathan
- So I Married an Axe Murderer
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- Wilson Mizner
8. Which of these quotes are a quote by Robert Burns
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- America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar
- When you go ice-skating, try not to swing your arms too much, because that really annoys me.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
- I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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- The safest way to double your money is to fold it over twice and put it in your pocket.
Frank McKinney Hubbard
9. Which of these quotes are a quote by Walter Lippmann
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- Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
- It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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- One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
French Proverb
