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1. What well known film star, famous for gangster roles and coin flipping, in referring to how he spent his money, said the following?
"Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly."
2. What well known artist and celebrity, commenting on being shot, had this to say about the experience?
"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television."
3. What nineteenth century American poet and essayist said this about those who often stick to their beliefs?
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
4. What philosopher had this to teach to princes?
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
5. Henry David Thoreau was jailed in 1846 for protesting the Mexican War. A friend of his visited him in jail. The friend asked, "Henry, why are you here?" to which Thoreau replied, "Why are you not here?" Who was this friend?
6. What novelist turned philosopher, noted for her writings on "Objectivism", had this to say about the human condition?
"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."
7. What well known personage left this suicide note?
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck."
8. "In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
What famous physicist said this in relation to some of his and other physicists' works?
9. In researching quotations for this quiz, it came as a surprise to find this up-beat quote from a German philosopher known for more serious pronouncements. Who was this philosopher who also enraged the Church by asserting that God is dead?
"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
10. Take the first letter of the surname of the correct answers for first two questions to get the man's initials for this author's first and middle names. The first letters of the surnames for the correct answers in questions 3-9 will yield his last name. No punctuation needed. Who is the well known poet, essayist, and orator whose 1836 essay "Nature" is considered to be the foundational statement of the philosophy of Transcendentalism? He once summed up the main focus of his work as being "the infinitude of the private man."
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