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"Let them eat cake!" Was a famous quote originated by what noblewoman after she was told her people were starving while she threw exorbitant parties?
Isablla di Medici
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Marie Antoinette
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"Fortune favors the bold" was a phrase crafted by what troubadour of Ancient Roman mythology who wrote The Aeneid?
Dante
Raphael
Virgil
Homer
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What religious leader generally summarized his philosophy of happiness with the quote, "Attachment is the root of all evil"?
Siddhartha Gautama
Lao Tzu
Muhammad
Jesus Christ
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What American president said during his inauguration, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Theodore Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
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"Go West, young man!" was a famous/infamous cry for manifest destiny and colonial expansion. It was originally said by what journalist who founded the New York Tribue?
Manfred Thatcher
Horace Greeley
Obadiah Quieter
Bill Ustinov
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What Greek philosopher famously cried "Behold! A man!" while holding a plucked chicken?
Socrates
Diogenes
Hippocrates
Aristotle
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What dictator explained his methodology through the quote, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"?
Mao Zedong
Vladimir Lenin
Napoleon Bonaparte
Adolph Hitler
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"We are saved by faith alone," was a famous quote that what reformer proclaimed in his theological texts as he broke away from the Catholic Church?
Joseph Smith
Robert Bauer
Martin Luther
John Calvin
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Who originated this famous quote? "That's one small step for (a) man, and one giant leap for mankind."
Alan Shepard
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
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What man gave voice to the impatience and anger of certain Civil Rights demonstrators in America when he declared frankly, "We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us"?
Martin Luther King Jr.
W. E. B. DuBois
Alan Pershing
Malcolm X
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What general summarized military activity with the three-word quote, "War is Hell"?
Mark W. Clark
Bernard Montgomery
William T. Sherman
George Patton
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Who said, at the Battle of Prague, "No firing 'til you see the whites of their eyes"?
Lee the Pious
Ethan the Shrewd
Frederick the Great
Nathaniel the Prudent
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What British leader said of a Nazi invasion, "We will fight them on the beaches!"?
Charles VI
Elizabeth II
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain
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What man opened the door for metaphysical philosophy as he declared, "I think. Therefore, I am"?
Jacques Derrida
Friedrich Engels
Joseph Hebert
Rene Descartes
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"Don't give up the ship!" was the dying command of what naval commander that became a rallying cry of maritime warriors throughout the West?
Zheng He
Horatio Nelson
James Lawrence
Douglas MacArthur
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What explorer and journalist said the famous quote "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"?
H. M. Stanley
Thomas Lowenthal
Vick Peters
Dudley Eversohl
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"I came, I saw, I conquered," was a famous quote originated by what warlord?
Genghis Khan
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Attila the Hun
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What philosopher originated the quote, "It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both."?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Aristotle
Emmanuel Kant
Soren Kierkegaard
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What famous activist originated the quote, "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"?
Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
Martin Luther King Jr.
Cesar Chavez
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What historical figure is often credited with originating the Golden Rule of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."?
Muhammad
Viva
Jesus Christ
Confucius
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What writer originated the passage, ". . . in spite of everything, I believe that people really are good at heart."?
Sain Augustine of Hippo
Anne Frank
Thomas Moore
Walt Whitman
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"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, and second as farce," is a famous quote from what philosopher?
George Bernard Shaw
Friedrich Nietzche
Karl Marx
Soren Kierkegaard
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Who originated the phrase ". . . the government of the people, by the people, and for the people."?
Thomas Jefferson
John Wycliffe
John Locke
John Calvin
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What man wrote the famous line, "To be, or not to be? That is the question," in his play Hamlet?
William Shakespeare
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Johannn Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Be the change you want to see in the world," was a phrase of advice given by what social advocate?
Dorothea Dix
Susan B. Anthony
Aesop
Gandhi
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What historic warlord said this infamous phrase that defined his philosophy, "I would sooner betray the world than let it betray me."?
Oda Nobunaga
Guan Yu
Liu Bei
Cao Cao
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What world leader originated the quote, "The death of a single man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic,"?
Queen Elizabeth II
Joseph Stalin
Charles de Gaulle
Dwight Eisenhower
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What man famously cried out "Eureka!" as he rose from his bathtub?
Draco
Solon
Plato
Archimedes
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"That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger," is a famous quote that explored a positive bend to the nihilistic philosophy of what thinker?
Thomas Aquinas
Friedrich Nietzche
Kai Loga
Holden Kurtzman
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What Hindu Rishi sage originated the infamous quote "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds," in his writing The Bhagavad Gita?
Vyasa
Pitka
Ferrin
Kudzu
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