Study Notes Dated : 2017-02-13

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
Do you like horror movies? Why or why not?
Answer :
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics
and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography,
natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order
to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture,
statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

Question 2:
What are some goals you have failed to accomplish?
Answer :
We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That
chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier
powers.

Question 3:
Who would be the worst person to be stuck in an elevator with? How about the best
person to be stuck in an elevator with?
Answer :
The covetous man never has money; the prodigal will have none shortly.

Question 4:
Where do you get your recommendations for what to do and where to stay when you
travel?
Answer :
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Question 5:
What is something that really annoys you but doesn't bother most people?
Answer :
You can't use tact with a Congressman. A Congressman is a hog. You must take a
stick and hit him on the snout.

Question 6:
Were you the class clown or teacher's pet?
Answer :
The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science
and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up
any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

Question 7:
What was your worst vacation experience?
Answer :
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially
his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Question 8:
Who is your oldest friend? Where did you meet them?
Answer :
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

Question 9:
What food do you know you shouldn't eat but can't stop yourself?
Answer :
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Question 10:
A portal to another world opens in front of you. You don't know how long it will
stay open or if you'll be able to get back after you go through. What do you do?
Answer :
Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of
portraying another.