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Advice & More January 2015

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

"We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings." - Jeannette Rankin.

1. “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”

A. Mahatma Gandhi

B. Jimmy Swaggart

C. Bashar al-Assad

 

2. "One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."

A. Margaret Thatcher

B. Margaret Sanger

C. Margaret Mead

 

3. "The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”

A. Edward Snowden

B. George Orwell

C. Don Ho

 

4. "Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once."

A. Woody Allen

B. Harper Lee

C. William Shakespeare

 

5. "God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain." 

A. C.S. Lewis

B. Barry Goldwater

C. Hugh Hefner

 

6. “All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

A. Morey Amsterdam

B. Aristotle

C. George H. W. Bush

 

7. "He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."

A. Madonna

B. Eminem

C. Confucius

 

8. “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

A. Marilyn Monroe

B. Joe Biden

C. Mary Tyler Moore

 

9. “There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.”

A. Charles Manson

B. Malcolm Forbes

C. Louis Pasteur

 

10. "A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. Laws change, people die, the land remains."

A. Martin Scorsese

B. Rick Perry

C. Abraham Lincoln


 

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-B , 4-C , 5-A , 6-B , 7-C , 8-A , 9-B , 10-C

Scoring:              

10 – QQQQ = Quote-Master   

8-9 – QQQ = Scholar                      

6-7 – QQ = Literate

4-5 – Q = Semi-Literate

0-3 – No Q = Quote-Dunce

 

BONUS QUOTE:

"We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings." - Jeannette Rankin. (Rankin, 1880-1973, from Montana, was the first woman in the U.S. Congress, and a lifelong pacifist.)

 

Arlen Grossman lives in Monterey, California, and welcomes comments at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Enjoy more quizzes at quotationquotient.com.

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