Who said:We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
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2.Who said:…The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger… The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart… Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it.
- Solon
- Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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- Bob Ross
3.Who said:Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
- H. G. Wells
- Dan Quayle
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- Margaret Lee Runbeck
- Brenda Ueland
4.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Yiddish Proverb
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- Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
- A snake deserves no pity.
- Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
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5. Which of these quotes are a quote by P Barnum
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- Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke
- Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
- It’s the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.
Andy Warhol
- Advertising is like learning — a little is a dangerous thing.
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6. Which of these quotes are a quote by Andr Gide
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- Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Gustave Flaubert
- One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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- I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
7. Which of these quotes are a quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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- The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.
Lao Tzu
- With silence favor me.
Horace
- I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.
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8.Who said:A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
- J. Michael Straczynski
- Amelia Earhart
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Henry Adams
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9.Who said:That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
- Edith Ann
- Aldous Huxley
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- Georges Clemenceau
10.Who said:It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World
- Walter Lippmann
- Alfred North Whitehead
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- Abraham Lincoln
- Jean Nathan Miller
11. Which of these quotes are a quote by Dennis Koenig
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- What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
Danish proverb
- Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread return to sender, addressee unknown. That’s a shame because it’s a whole other world out there–or in here depending on your point of view.
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- A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill
