The Alohacyberian Poll

Welcome to the world-famous & much heralded & trumpeted Alohacyberian Poll! Your opinion is valuable & the rest of the world waits in silent expectation, anxious anticipation & with hushed voices & bated breath to read your thoughts & feelings. The poll is completely anonymous & no one will know who you are & there are no cookies! There are famous quotes by people of note & you may indicate whether you agree with them or not. To answer the questionaire just click in the dot that best represents your response to the quote. If you don't have an opinion on some of the quotations, you may skip them & go on to the ones you want to respond to. You aren't penalized for skipping or guessing! There are 20 scintillating quotes by famous people to tickle your brain. Let these famous people know what you think! You may enter the polling booth as many times as you like and take the test as often as you want to be polled. There are no wrong answers! First prize for completing the survey is an immense feeling of personal accomplishment! Come back again soon! KM

  1. Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. -- Robert Byrne

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  2. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein

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  3. When a true genius appears in this world, you will know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift

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  4. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. -- James Baldwin

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  5. You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand. -- Leonardo da Vinci

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  6. Insanity in the individual is rare -- but in groups, parties, nations & epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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  7. A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. -- Lord Halifax

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  8. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James

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  9. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up & hurry off as if nothing ever happened. -- Winston Churchill

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  10. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. -- Winston Churchill

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  11. In times of tumult & discord, bad men have the most power; mental & moral excellence require peace. -- Tacitus

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  12. Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to become educated. -- anonymous

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  13. To succeed in this world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

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  14. We want the facts to fit our preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -- Jassamyn West

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  15. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Plato

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  16. Recommend virtue to your children, it alone, not money, will make them happy. -- Beethoven

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  17. Most people seek that which they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. -- Anwar El-Sadat

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  18. The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. -- Muhammad

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  19. My advice to you is to get married; if you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates

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  20. What do these 18 people have in common? Alexander the Great, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, Richard the Lionhearted, Joan of Arc, Mary Queen of Scots, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Leon Trotsky, Mahatma Ghandi, Indira Ghandi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Yitzak Rabin

    They were geniuses
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    They were scientists
    They were teachers
    They were murdered