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[quote]"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."

A)Yogi Berra
B)Mark Twain
C)Dante
D)Walt Disney[/quote]

I will have to for B, MArk Twain it fits perfectly for him that quote. That's my final answer B.

Here is another quote:

" Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes. "

A: John D. Rockefeller
B: Warren Buffett
C: Bill Gates
D: Donald Trump
E: Oprah Winfrey
F: Martha Stewart
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I think I read that one a long time ago, and it was attributed to Rockefeller. He might not have been the first to say it, though.
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B is right. Unfotuantley that's an easy one (I almost added that Dante wrote the Divine COMEDY, but that would make it obvious it wasnt him)
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[quote]I think I read that one a long time ago, and it was attributed to Rockefeller. He might not have been the first to say it, though.[/quote]

Yeah, there is a lot of people that the quote was attributed to, but it was Oprah Winfrey that was said it on a magazine.

Here it goes another quote.

" The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. "

A: Aristotle
B: Harry S Truman
C: Fred Thompson
D: John Locke
E: Martin Luther King Jr.
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Was it Harry S Truman ????
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Here is one:

"War is to man what maternity is to woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal standpoint, I do no believe in perpetual peace."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Czar Nicholas III
C. William T. Sherman
D. Genghis Khan
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[quote]"War is to man what maternity is to woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal standpoint, I do no believe in perpetual peace."

A. Benito Mussolini
B. Czar Nicholas III
C. William T. Sherman
D. Genghis Khan[/quote]

That must be something like A: Benito Mussolini that sounds much like him or it also might be Czar Nicholas III.

Here is a quote that I found over the internet that I found it so true to life that I decided to post in here so that everyone would read it. I also want to know your opinion about this quote that, we see a lot of things on the movies that people seem to distorned from reality to believe in fantasy. Take for example the swarm of myth on the board about curving bullet ? Mad

“Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.”

A: Charles Chaplain
B: Mark Twain
C: Ben Hecht
D: Rusell Baker
E: Kurt Vonnegut
I: Tom Sharpe
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First, I agree with you that the previous quote was probably by Mussolini.

As to your quote, I would guess Kurt Vonnegut.
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[quote]As to your quote, I would guess Kurt Vonnegut.[/quote]

Nope just-the-facts got it wrong. Try to guess another name.

(* HINT) Your letter guess is not that far off from the right answer, give it another try.
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[quote]"War is to man what maternity is to woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal standpoint, I do no believe in perpetual peace."

>> A. Benito Mussolini

“Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.”

>> C: Ben Hecht (i think)
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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."

A: William Shakespeare
B: Socrates
C: Francis Bacon
D: Aristoteles
E: Nietzsche
F: Karl Marx
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[quote]“Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.”

>> C: Ben Hecht (i think)[/quote]

You got it, it was Ben Hecht.

And the answer to your quote andrws. I think that it was the Greek Philosopher "Socrates".
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"The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them."

A: Albert Schweitzer
B: Ralph Waldo Emerson
C: Socrates
D: Galileo Galilei
E: Dr King
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[quote]"The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them."[/quote]

I’m afraid I have to guess on this one. I can’t decide. Is it A or C?



“Where the light is brightest the shadows are deepest.”


A: Wolfgang Goethe
B: Emile Zola
C: Arthur Koestler
D: Alfred Stieglitz
E: Monet
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"The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them."

C: Socrates


"Where the light is brightest the shadows are deepest."

A: Wolfgang Goethe


“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

A. Plato
B. Napoleon
C. Picasso
D. Rodin
E. Julius Caesar
F. Marcus Aurelius
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[quote]“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

A. Plato
B. Napoleon
C. Picasso
D. Rodin
E. Julius Caesar
F. Marcus Aurelius[/quote]

I'm thinking .... Rodin! (Get it?)

Here's a good one:

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

Was it:

A. Machiavelli
B. Lincoln
C. Socrates
D. Confucius
E. Marx
F. Emerson (Ralph Waldo)
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[quote]I'm thinking .... Rodin! (Get it?) [/quote]

Incorrect (but is close)

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

D. Confucius
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Guess this Quote.

" The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. "

A: Senator Barack Obama
B: Donald H. Rumsfeld
C: Carl Schurz
D: Franklin D. Roosevelt
E: Frederick William Robertson
F: Fred Thompson
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is it D
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[quote]is it D[/quote]

Yeah, got it straight right it is letter "D".
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