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Pop Quiz: Who Said That?!

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1.   “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.” Who said this?
    Benjamin Franklin
    Winston Churchill
    Mark Twain
    Yogi Berra

2.   “The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” Who said this?
    Woody Allen
    Richard Nixon
    Robert Frost
    John F. Kennedy

3.   “It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.” Who said this?
    Winston Churchill
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Thomas Jefferson
    Harry S. Truman

4.   “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” Who said this?
    Aristotle
    Plato
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Mark Twain

5.   “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Who said this?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Henry David Thoreau
    Herman Melville

6.   “He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.” Who said this?
    Confucius
    Nelson Mandela
    Benjamin Franklin
    William Shakespeare

7.   “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” Who said this?
    Benjamin Franklin
    George Bernard Shaw
    Henry David Thoreau
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

8.   “Men have become the tools of their tools.” Who said this?
    Henry David Thoreau
    Bill Clinton
    Steven Jobs
    John D. Rockefeller

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