Study Notes Dated : 2000-02-22

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?
Answer :
It is good to collect things; it is better to take walks.

Question 2:
What trends did you follow when you were younger?
Answer :
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure
peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be
known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Question 3:
What kind of interior do you like a restaurant to have?
Answer :
Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of
ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for
others, our efforts return to bless us.

Question 4:
How has the education you received changed your life?
Answer :
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But
you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a
man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false
gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Question 5:
What is the worst hotel you have stayed at? How about the best hotel?
Answer :
If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much, and winning is
not very exciting.

Question 6:
How often do you curse? And what's your go-to string of curse words?
Answer :
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.

Question 7:
Which\u00a0recent news story\u00a0is the most interesting?
Answer :
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal
and independent, that from that equal creation they derive fights inherent and
inalienable, among which are the preservation of life and liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness.

Question 8:
What countries have you traveled to?
Answer :
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of
the merchants a merchant.

Question 9:
What is something that really annoys you but doesn't bother most people?
Answer :
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Question 10:
What was the worst book you had to read for school? How about the best book you had
to read for school?
Answer :
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man,
and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.