2023 NOF Quarter #3

National Online Forensics - Feb 18 | Status: Completed | 4:12 PM Pacific

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  A. College Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1: 1:30pm

Speaker 1
  1. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth. --Rick Riordan
  2. A great man is always willing to be little. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  3. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. --Bill Bradley
Speaker 2
  1. Whatever you are, be a good one. --Abraham Lincoln
  2. Walk away from it until you’re stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you’ll be better able to cope. --Lady Bird Johnson
  3. "You always pass failure on the way to success.” --— Mickey Rooney
Speaker 3
  1. Value your friendship. Value your relationships. --Barbara Bush
  2. If men were angels, no government would be necessary. --James Madison
  3. "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.” --— Noam Chomsky
Speaker 4
  1. Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. --Arthur Conan Doyle
  2. Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? --Marie Antoinette
  3. "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” --— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speaker 5
  1. The first mistake in public business is the going into it. --Benjamin Franklin
  2. A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. --Les Brown
  3. Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him. --Dostoyevsky
Speaker 6
  1. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. --Anne Frank
  2. In youth, we learn; in age, we understand --Marie von Ebner–Eschenbach
  3. If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so. --Keith Ellison
Speaker 7
  1. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. --Tom Peters
  2. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. --Albert Einstein
  3. "No nation was ever ruined by trade." --— Benjamin Franklin

Round 2: 3:00pm

Speaker 1
  1. Wherever women gather together failure is impossible. --Susan B. Anthony
  2. Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it --The Incredibles
  3. "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” --— Ingrid Bergman
Speaker 2
  1. Happiness depends upon ourselves. --Aristotle
  2. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. --Lao Tzu
  3. One man with courage makes a majority. --Andrew Jackson
Speaker 3
  1. Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you. --Aldous Huxley
  2. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. --Abraham Lincoln
  3. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. --Paul Boese
Speaker 4
  1. "I have only two passions: space exploration and hip-hop.” --— Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who is producing a single with rapper Snoop Dogg.
  2. We must be our own before we can be another’s --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  3. Necessity never made a good bargain. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 5
  1. From failure we learn, from success not so much --Meet the Robinsons
  2. You are nothing. A scavenger girl is no match for the power in me. I am all the Sith. --Emperor Palpatine, The Rise of Skywalker
  3. “It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.” --— Frank Zappa
Speaker 6
  1. It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. --Benjamin Franklin
  2. We didn’t set out to be superheroes. But sometimes life doesn’t go the way you planned --Big Hero 6
  3. Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero. --Fred Rogers
Speaker 7
  1. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt
  2. You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing. --Warren Buffett
  3. Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. --Dolores Huerta

Round 3: 4:15pm

Speaker 1
  1. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. --Sam Walton
  2. "A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.” --— George Bernard Shaw
  3. Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. --Abraham Lincoln
Speaker 2
  1. You can’t tiptoe toward justice. You can’t walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone’s home. Justice is a door that, when closed, must be kicked in. --Daniel José Older
  2. Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. --Benjamin Franklin
  3. "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” --— Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 3
  1. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. "Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!” --— Herman Melville
  3. It's hard to force creativity and humor. --Al Yankovic
Speaker 4
  1. The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action. --Malcolm X
  2. "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” --— James Madison
  3. He who has great power should use it lightly. --Seneca
Speaker 5
  1. He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. --Benjamin Franklin
  2. It’s important to always look where you’re headed rather than where you were --The Lion King
  3. I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. --Milton Friedman
Speaker 6
  1. Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. --Aeschylus
  2. Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. --Howard Zinn
  3. A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. --Bertrand Russell
Speaker 7
  1. That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love. --Rose, The Last Jedi
  2. Diligence is the mother of good luck. --Benjamin Franklin
  3. “He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral.” --— Thomas Aquinas

Finals: 5:45pm

Speaker 1
  1. Every moment is a fresh beginning. --T.S. Eliot
  2. He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. --Solon
  3. In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. --Alexander Hamilton
Speaker 2
  1. “Better that many guilty persons escape unpunished than one innocent person should be punished.” --— John Adams
  2. “It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites." --— Thomas Sowell
  3. It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. --Latin Proverb
Speaker 3
  1. I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. --Warren Buffett
  2. I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out. --Nancy Reagan
  3. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. --Aristotle
Speaker 4
  1. “Seeing the people our friends are attracted to often illuminates aspects of their personalities we don’t recognize.” --— Tim Kreider
  2. The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. --Ayn Rand
  3. “Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. Sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.” --— Vince Lombardi
Speaker 5
  1. Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people. --Kin Hubbard
  2. My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you. --Jenna Jameson
  3. “Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination.” --— Walter E. Williams
Speaker 6
  1. Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” --Spencer Johnson
  2. "The only essential difference between rock, water, air, life, galaxies, economies, civilizations, plastics is the rate of flow." --— Donovan Hohn
  3. “I’m intellectually lazy. […] If you’re anything like me, you don’t make up your mind about important issues by doing original research, poring over primary sources and coming to your own conclusions; you listen to people who claim to know what they’re talking about—“experts”—and try to determine which of them more credible.” --— Tim Kreider
Speaker 7
  1. As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. --Antisthenes
  2. Education is the best provision for old age. --Aristotle
  3. "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” --— Terry Pratchett