A. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Aunt
    Palm
    Children

  2. Speaker 2


    Estate
    Luggage
    Wrist

  3. Speaker 3


    Villa
    Owl
    Mouth

  4. Speaker 4


    Lighter
    Antlers
    Detective

  5. Speaker 5


    Ship
    Brother
    Rabbit

  6. Speaker 6


    Ears
    Police
    Boy

  7. Speaker 7


    Cane
    Crow
    Car

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    self-discipline
    Ego
    Disquiet

  2. Speaker 2


    reason
    Silliness
    Lie

  3. Speaker 3


    thought
    Movement
    sophistication

  4. Speaker 4


    Contentment
    Worry
    misery

  5. Speaker 5


    Restoration
    Death
    Liberty

  6. Speaker 6


    Defeat
    Wariness
    helpfulness

  7. Speaker 7


    Intelligence
    graciousness
    Care

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden. --Irish proverb
    The grass is always greener on the other side
    A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all. --Chinese Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    He that beats the drum for the mad man to dance is no better than the mad man himself. --African proverb
    Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
    You cannot build a house for last year’s summer. --Ethiopian proverb

  3. Speaker 3


    Only one who can swallow an insult is a man. --Chinese Proverb
    Don't put the cart before the horse.
    A rising tide lifts all boats.

  4. Speaker 4


    The harder you work, the luckier you get.
    Necessity is the mother of invention
    There is truth in wine.

  5. Speaker 5


    The longest mile is the last mile home.
    A book is a pocket garden. --Chinese Proverb
    Half a loaf is better than none.

  6. Speaker 6


    Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
    Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet. --Chinese Proverb
    Blood is thicker than water

  7. Speaker 7


    One who bathes willingly with cold water doesn’t feel the cold. --Fipa proverb
    A flea can trouble a lion more than a lion can trouble a flea. --Kenyan proverb
    Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily. --Chinese Proverb

Elim 1: A/B - Prelim 2: J

  1. Speaker 1


    He that lives upon hope will die fasting. --Benjamin Franklin
    Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. --Abigail Adams
    I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience. --Barbra Streisand

  2. Speaker 2


    The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. --Aldous Huxley
    I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day --Hercules
    “The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly." --— Robert Anton Wilson

  3. Speaker 3


    When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
    How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. --Benjamin Franklin
    Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

  4. Speaker 4


    If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
    Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. --Anne Frank
    Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

  5. Speaker 5


    Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. --Benjamin Franklin
    The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will. --Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites." --— Thomas Sowell

  6. Speaker 6


    "No artist is ever completely free, and art does not necessarily thrive as it becomes less constrained.” --— Andrew Sarris
    It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do! --Fred Rogers
    Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort. --Fred Rogers

  7. Speaker 7


    To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not. --Germany Kent
    The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. --Benjamin Franklin
    For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves. --Anne Heche

Elim 2 A/B

  1. Speaker 1


    The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. --Albert Einstein
    We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. --Lucretia Mott
    Believe you can and you're halfway there.

  2. Speaker 2


    “Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.” --— Ludwig von Mises
    Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our viewpoint. -- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi
    Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. --Bruce Lee

  3. Speaker 3


    "You snooze, you lose. I have snost and lost.” --— Mike Doughty
    You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
    "Silence are the words we were never intended to say.” --— Poesie Noire

  4. Speaker 4


    “Why are you threatened by anyone different than you?
    To infinity and beyond!
    "Waste no time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” --— Marcus Aurelius

  5. Speaker 5


    You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
    It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. --Andrew Jackson
    A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician.

  6. Speaker 6


    The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
    Remember that credit is money. --Benjamin Franklin
    Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness. --Janisse Ray

  7. Speaker 7


    Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. --Alice Walker
    “We may hate each other, but let’s at least quit pretending we hate hating each other; we love hating each other.” --— Tim Kreider
    Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. --Alice Walker

TBA

  1. Speaker 1


    “People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” --— Alan Moore
    Real strength has to do with helping others. --Fred Rogers
    I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand. --Benjamin Franklin

  2. Speaker 2


    Governments never learn. Only people learn. --Milton Friedman
    Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere
    Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. --Aesop

  3. Speaker 3


    Destiny helps people believe there's an order to this horseshit. --Geralt of Rivia
    Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor. --Benjamin Franklin
    When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself. --Benjamin Franklin

  4. Speaker 4


    Force always attracts men of low morality. --Albert Einstein
    “I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that one steps near and begins to speak." --— Rumi
    Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. --Mahatma Gandhi

  5. Speaker 5


    "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” --— Buddha, 583-463 B.C.
    Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy
    “Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.” --— Andy Weir

  6. Speaker 6


    Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble
    You manage things; you lead people.
    The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. --Andrew Carnegie

  7. Speaker 7


    “Whatever lens you view the world through, becomes your reality. If you believe that everybody is out to get you and the whole system is designed to oppress you, then you'll find infinite evidence to confirm your belief.” --— Zuby
    Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. --Barbara Jordan
    “The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” --— Milton Friedman