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Super quiz

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Subject: QUOTATIONS

Provide the one word missing from the quotation. (e.g., “I came, I saw, I ____.” Answer: Conquered (Julius Caesar).)

Freshman level

1. “That which does not kill us makes us _____.”

2. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not ____.”

3. “If you’re going through ____, keep going.”

Graduate level

4. “The _____ life is not worth living.”

5. “When you cease to ____ you cease to live.”

6. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t ____.”

Ph.D. level

7. “It is really clear that the most precious resource we all have is ____.”

8. “The secret of getting ahead is getting ____.”

9. “____ is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”

Answers:

1. Stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche).

2. Stop (Confucius).

3. Hell (Winston Churchill).

4. Unexamined (Socrates).

5. Dream (Malcolm Forbes).

6. Work (Thomas Edison).

7. Time (Steve Jobs).

8. Started (Mark Twain).

9. Life (John Lennon and others).

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