Speaker 1

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business. --Dolley Madison

“Soldiers quartered in a populous town will always occasion two mobs where they prevent one. They are wretched conservators of the peace.” --— John Adams

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. --Steve Jobs

Speaker 2

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak. --Fred Rogers

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. --Sigmund Freud

"You never know how fast you're going until you fall off." --— Surfer and filmmaker, Bruce Brown

Speaker 3

Even the tiny protests help. --Patsy Mink

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” --— Margaret Mead

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. --Stephen Hawking

Speaker 4

"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children." --— Malcolm X

“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.” --— William J. H. Boetcker

These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. --Obi-Wan Kenobi, A New Hope

Speaker 5

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. --Samuel Beckett

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face --Pinocchio

Sometimes I feel like I'm on a rollercoaster, and I'm at the top of the world. --BoJack Horseman

Speaker 6

“Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves.” --— John Taylor Gatto

It's not about money. It's about sending a message. --The Dark Knight

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” --— Jan-Jacques Rousseau

Speaker 7

Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. --Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

Speaker 1

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” --— Robert A. Heinlein

Keep your face always toward the sunshine --and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman

“The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.” --— Ludwig von Mises

Speaker 2

"There are simply two kinds of music, good and the other kind.” --— Duke Ellington

"I think if the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up.” --— Umbrella Man Louie Steven Witt

“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. [...] Let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things [...] not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs." --—C.S. Lewis

Speaker 3

"If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing.” --— Benjamin Franklin

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. --Ron Paul

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest. --John Adams

Speaker 4

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. --Benjamin Disraeli

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. --Betty Ford

“We are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.” --— Steven Soderbergh

Speaker 5

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. --Fred Rogers

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. --A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. --Frank Lloyd Wright

Speaker 6

Goodbye may seem forever, farewell is like the end. But in my heart's a memory, and there you'll always be --The Fox and the Hound

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. --Albert Einstein

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise. --Kobe Bryant

Speaker 7

It is not the length of life, but the depth. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Silence are the words we were never intended to say.” --— Poesie Noire

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. --Aristotle

Speaker 1

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. --Benjamin Franklin

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. --Andy Warhol

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. --Publilius Syrus

Speaker 2

It's not easy being green. --Sesame Street

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. --Aristophanes

Admit defeat, and defeat will surely admit you into permanent custody --An Extremely Goofy Movie

Speaker 3

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. --Winston Churchill

“Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.” --— Abraham Lincoln

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better. --Yao Ming

Speaker 4

Being brave doesn’t mean you go looking for trouble --The Lion King

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. --General Colin Powell

“Political correctness is not about being nice. It's about control.” --— Natalie F. Danelishen

Speaker 5

Be independent of the good opinion of other people. --Maslow

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. --Aesop

“There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law." --— Edward Snowden

Speaker 6

"If you're always successful at BS'ing it's because you are not hanging around people who are smarter than you.” --— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. --Toni Morrison (Beloved)

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” --— Peter Steiner

Speaker 7

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. --Warren Buffett

I wasn’t born a first lady or a senator. I wasn’t born a Democrat. I wasn’t born a lawyer or an advocate for women’s rights and human rights. I wasn’t born a wife or a mother. --Hillary Clinton

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” --— James Madison

Speaker 1

I never said most of the things I said. --Yogi Berra

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. --Lao-tze

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speaker 2

The only way to stop feeling afraid of something is to face it. --Ozark

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. --Steve Jobs

Open different doors, you may find a you there that you never knew was yours. Anything can happen --Mary Poppins

Speaker 3

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised ‘for the good of its victims' may be the most oppressive." --— C. S. Lewis

What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history. --Warren Buffett

"Stories unite people. Theories divide them.” --— Dr. James Billington (Librarian of Congress)

Speaker 4

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. --Aldous Huxley

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. --Maslow

"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." --— Frédéric Bastiat

Speaker 5

"Some people pass through your life and you never think about them again. Some you think about and wonder what ever happened to them. Some you wonder if they ever wonder what happened to you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.” --— Todd W. Langen, writer for The Wonder Years

I don't want to survive. I want to live --WALL-E

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. --Steve Jobs

Speaker 6

“There is no imposition so presumptuous as other people’s love.” --— Tim Kreider

“Words [...] are used as bullets in a form of verbal warfare, not as honest descriptions." --— Jeff Deist

"The only way an artist can fail is to quit.” --— Thomas Hart Benton

Speaker 7

"No feeling is final.” --— Rainer Maria Rilke

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. --Benjamin Franklin

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. --John Wayne