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| Who said: 'Let us have have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.'? | Who Said What?
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Abraham Lincoln. Said in an address to New York city Feb. 21, 1859.
| According to Albert Einstein, 'God doesn't play ...' What? | Who Said What?
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| What author once said: 'A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.'? | Who Said What?
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Mark Twain. Mark Twain (1835-1910)
| What religious figure once said:'Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law eternal.'? | Who Said What?
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Buddha. Buddha (563?-483? BC)
| What famous musician in response to Tipper Gore's allegations that music incites people towards deviant behavior, or influences their behavior in general said: 'I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?'? | Who Said What?
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| Albert Einstein stated that: 'Imagination is more important than...' What? | Who Said What?
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Knowledge. 'Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.'
| 'Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion' and 'Be happy while your living for you're a long time dead.' Are proverbs from what country? | Who Said What?
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| What monster stated: 'You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral, more moral than compromises and transactions.'? | Who Said What?
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| Who was quoted as saying: 'I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.'? | Who Said What?
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| What singer wrote: 'Life is short but sweet for certain.'? | Who Said What?
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Alexander Pope. At 4 feet 6 inches he was very short in height but very great as an English poet.
| Who said,'Only clients with money get true legal advice'? | Who said it?
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F. Lee Bailey. F. Lee Bailey's clients have included some very wealthy people, such as Patty Hearst, Dr. Samuel Shepard and O. J. Simpson.
Yogi Berra. In doing this quiz, I've noticed, It gets late early out here.
| Who said, 'Work expands to fill time available'? | Who said it?
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C. Northcote Parkinson. Another example of Parkinson's Principle is:'Data expands to fill the space available'. My exception to this Principle is: 'My paper money never completely fills my wallet'
Ely Culbertson. For the Bridge Hands published in many newspapers, the 'SOUTH HAND' is usually the declarer and Ely Culbertson played those hands with great skill, usually making the 'unmakeable contracts'.
| Who said, 'Justice, I think is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society'? | Who said it?
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Judge Learned Hand. One of the greatest Judges in U.S. history, but he was consumed by his own self-doubts and feelings of inadequacy.
| Who said. 'In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his Level of Incompetence'? | Who said it?
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Lawrence Peter. The 'Peter's Principle' is one of the most often referred to by top management officers.
| Who said, 'There are two laws, discrete, not reconciled, law for men and law for things'? | Who said it?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was a great American essayist and philosopher,
Adlai E. Stevenson. He was the grandson of the 1893 Vice-President, Adlai E.Stevenson, and he was twice defeated as the democratic candidate for U.S. Presidency.
| Who said, 'You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold'? | Who said it?
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William Jennings Bryan. This was from a speech he made at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1896.
| Who said, 'For an evolutionary system, continuing development is needed just in order to maintain its fitness relative to the systems it is co-evolving with'? | Who said it?
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L. Van Alen. This is the 'Red Queen Principle'. In Lewis Carroll's novel the Red Queen tells {Alice;} 'in this place it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place'.
Jesus, as recorded by St Matthew. From the book of Matthew 7:1
| Who said, 'They should rule who are able to rule best'? | Who said it?
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Aristotle. From the mouth of a great Greek philosopher.
| Who said, 'Life is short, the art long, timing is exact, experience treacherous, judgement difficult'? | Who said it?
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Hippocrates. Yes, the Father of Medicine.
| Who said, 'Speak clearly, if you speak at {all;} carry every word before you let it out'? | Who said it?
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.. He was Associate Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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