Which of these quotes are a quote by Mahatma Gandhi
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- When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Naomi Friedan
- Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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2. Which of these quotes are a quote by Carl Sagan
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- The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
Bennett Alfred Cerf
- But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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- Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
Homer
3. Which of these quotes are a quote by Albert Einstein
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- Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal.
Mike Ditka
- Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru
- Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
Andy Rooney
- Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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- It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see or care.
F Scott
4.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Martha Beck
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- The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
- Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
- Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
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5. Which of these quotes are a quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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- Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It’s often the little things that really matter in life.
Unknown
- The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
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- The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.
Eric Hoffer
6.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Socrates
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- Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
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- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
7.Who said:In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
- Henry Drummond
- Douglas H. Everett
- Dante Alighieri
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- Juvenal
8.Who said:Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
- John Lancaster Spalding
- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
- John Stuart Mill
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9. Which of these quotes are a quote by Cary Grant
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- It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw
- My father used to say, ‘Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.’
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- Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud
- Get a good night’s sleep and don’t bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)
Richard Milhous Nixon
10. Which of these quotes are a quote by William Langland
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- Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
George Eliot
- It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Virgil
- Who will bell the cat
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- An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
Werner Karl Heisenberg
- There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
David Ben-Gurion



