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May 2004 |
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Who Said What?Test your knowledge of the people below by determining who made which statement.
1) “Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had?” 2) “And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as it were the last.” 3) “Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” 4) “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” 5) “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” 6) “Had I been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.” 7) “It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another – it’s the same damn thing over and over.” 8) “Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” 9) “Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. . . .Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” 10) “A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.” 11) “You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.” 12) “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospitals dying from nothing.” 13) “Economists totally ignore the productive contribution of women who are raising children. I make a joke when I talk to businesspeople and say, how productive would your work force be if it wasn’t toilet trained?” 14) “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
15)
“You can build a throne with
bayonets, but you cannot sit on it for long.”
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