Speaker 1

1. I’ve had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.   Serena Williams

2. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.  Voltaire

3.  Lead, follow, or get out of the way.  Thomas Paine

Speaker 2

1.  Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be  light. Frida Kahlo

2.  Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.  Seneca

3.  When you are right, you cannot be too radical.  When you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.  Martin Luther King, Jr.

Speaker 3

1   You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi

2.  You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.  Viscount John Morley

3.  Law is order, and good law is good order.  Aristotle

Speaker 4

1. I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.  Katherine Johnson

2. I am invisible understand, simply because people refuse to see me.  Ralph Ellison

3. We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit.  Aristotle

Speaker 5

1.  You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of 

revealing too much. Betty Friedan

2.  The fear of war is worse than war itself.     — Seneca

3.  The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.  ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Speaker 6

1.   No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

2.   We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.   Stephen Vincent Benét 

3.   Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Seneca

Speaker 1

1.  If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

      Maya Angelou

2.   Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
      Sir Winston Churchill

3.   Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce

Speaker 2

1.  In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised--but by things that they expect.

Tristan Bernard

2.  Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.  John Wooden

3.  The secret is to become wise before you get old.  Anonymous

Speaker 3

1.  All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.   Aristotle

2.  You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.   Wallace Arnold

3.  Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.    Thomas Alva Edison

Speaker 4

1.  Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.   Albert Camus

2.  If there is no struggle, there is no progress.   Frederick Douglass

3.  Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.   Ludwig van Beethoven

Speaker 5

1.  We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.    Aesop  

2.The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.    Alan Ashley-Pitt

3.  Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.    Ben Bayol

Speaker 6

1. Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.  Dwight D. Eisenhower 

2. The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.  Cicero 

3.  Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.  Joseph Conrad 

Speaker 1

1.   Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.   African Proverb 

2.   An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.                 Russian Proverb

3.   Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.   American Proverb

Speaker 2

1.     Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.                 African Proverb 

2.     Better a quiet death than a public misfortune.          Spanish Proverb
3.     A wise man hears one word and understands two.  Yiddish Proverb

Speaker 3

1.  The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door.   African Proverb
      2.  He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.             Turkish Proverb
      3.  One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.      Swedish Proverb

Speaker 4

1.  There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.   African Proverb

2.  A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.   Persian Proverb

3.  Don't judge a man by the words of his mother, listen to the comments of his neighbors.  Yiddish Proverb

Speaker 5

1.      Govern a small family as you would cook a small fish, very gently.       Chinese Proverb
2.      When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.                             Ethiopian Proverb
3.      Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of. American Proverb

Speaker 6

1.      He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
        Chinese Proverb

2.      In the ants' house the dew is a flood.      Persian Proverb

3.     All things grow with time, except grief.   Yiddish Proverb

Speaker 7

1.      He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.        Ethiopian Proverb
2.      Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.                 Japanese Proverb
3.      Advice should be viewed from behind.                                    Swedish Proverb