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MUSIC – (COLOR – RED)
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"What so proudly we hailed
FINISH: at the twilight’s last gleaming."
The Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key
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"Me, a name I call myself
FINISH: Fa, a long, long way to run"
Do-Re-Mi, from The Sound of Music
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
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"Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz
FINISH: My friends all drive Porsches,I must make amends."
Mercedes-Benz, Janis Joplin 1970
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"So bye, bye Miss American Pie
FINISH: drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
American Pie, Don McLean, 1972
LITERATURE (COLOR – YELLOW)
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"If at first you don’t succeed
FINISH: try, try again."
"Teachers Manual" Thomas H. Palmer
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"Candy is dandy
FINISH: but liquor is quicker."
"Reflections on Ice-breaking" Ogden Nash, American humorist, 1931
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"Men Are From Mars
FINISH: Women Are From Venus"
Title of Book, John Gray, Ph.D.
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"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
FINISH: Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."
Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement C. Moore
QUOTABLES (proverbs, nursery rhymes, common sayings – COLOR – PURPLE)
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"It’s not whether you win or lose
FINISH: it’s how you play the game."
variation of quote by Grantland Rice, "Alumnus Football," 1941
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"Never put off till tomorrow
FINISH: what you can do today."
Proverb
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"Hey diddle, diddle
FINISH: the cat and the fiddle."
"Hey Diddle Diddle" Nursery Rhyme
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"Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
FINISH: To fetch her poor dog a bone."
"Old Mother Hubbard" Nursery Rhyme
TIMELINES (time-honored quotes from history, science, religion, sports – BLUE)
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident
FINISH: that all men are created equal."
The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
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"That’s one small step for man
FINISH: "One giant leap for mankind."
Neil Armstrong, upon setting foot on the Moon, July, 1969
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"Nice guys
FINISH: finish last."
Leo Durocher, manager of Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, said of the New York Giants
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"The love of money
FINISH: is the root of all evil."
The Bible, authorized version, 1611, I Timothy, ch. 6, v.10
TV/MOVIES (COLOR – ORANGE)
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"From the town of Bedrock
FINISH: They’re a page right out of history."
The Flintstones, cartoon, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
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"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world
FINISH: she walks into mine."
spoken by Humphrey Bogart in the film, Casablanca
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"To boldly go
FINISH: where no man has gone before."
Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, TV series, 1966
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"Beavis
FINISH: and Butt-head"
Title of the deliberately tasteless MTV animated series