A. High School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse
    We are always getting ready to live but never living
    No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. --Christian Nestell Bovee

  2. Speaker 2


    There is nothing permanent except change. --Heraclitus
    “Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.” --— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.” --— Murray Rothbard

  3. Speaker 3


    Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. --Malcolm X
    “American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.” --— Frank Zappa
    Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

  4. Speaker 4


    "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” --— Jacob Riis
    No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right. A single experiment can prove me wrong. --Albert Einstein
    Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope

  5. Speaker 5


    It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. --Albus Dumbledore
    A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
    The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. --Abraham Lincoln

  6. Speaker 6


    "Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in the case of conflict, the man before the dollar.” --— Abraham Lincoln
    Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.
    If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way. --Seamus Heaney

  7. Speaker 7


    Whatever you are, be a good one. --Abraham Lincoln
    "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” --— George Bernard Shaw
    The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they're generally not the ones being touted in the news. --Fred Rogers

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    “Time moves differently in hospitals—both slower and faster. The minutes stand still, but the hours evaporate.” --— Tim Kreider
    Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. --Albert Einstein
    Leadership is influence. --John C. Maxwell

  2. Speaker 2


    Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. --Fred Rogers
    It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. --Albus Dumbledore
    Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. --Aldous Huxley

  3. Speaker 3


    When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. --Benjamin Franklin
    Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. --Abigail Adams
    "You can't have creativity without chutzpah. It takes enormous chutzpah to believe that you will have an idea that will change and make a lot of money. But unless you believe that, you will never become an entrepreneur. --— Yossi Vardi

  4. Speaker 4


    "For society is nothing but collaboration." --— Ludwig von Mises
    At this age, I should be leading a quiet life. --Aung San Suu Kyi
    Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  5. Speaker 5


    I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards --Abraham Lincoln
    Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. --EM Forster
    There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship. --Ai Weiwei

  6. Speaker 6


    Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. --Benjamin Franklin
    “We make it look easy on the court… because we practice until we cannot get it wrong anymore." --— Basketball player Gabby Williams
    "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” --— Mark Twain

  7. Speaker 7


    "Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." --— E.L. Doctorow
    You come at the king, you best not miss.
    Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. --Aldous Huxley

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. --Dale Turner
    “Once is a mistake, twice is jazz.” --— Attributed to Miles Davis
    There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind. --Fred Rogers

  2. Speaker 2


    Life is to be entered upon with courage. --Alexis de Tocqueville
    Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. --John C. Maxwell
    “Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.” --— Ron Paul

  3. Speaker 3


    You may delay, but time will not. --Benjamin Franklin
    Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. --Bruce Lee
    At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. --Benjamin Franklin

  4. Speaker 4


    I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy --Finding Nemo
    There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. --Fred Rogers
    Adventure is out there

  5. Speaker 5


    Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. --George Washington
    I have no sense of humor about losing
    "There is no man that is free from all evil, nor any man that is so evil to be worth nothing.” --— David Castillo's last words, executed in Texas on Aug. 23, 1998

  6. Speaker 6


    He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
    To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs. --Aldous Huxley
    Well done is better than well said. --Benjamin Franklin

  7. Speaker 7


    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
    I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. --Milton Friedman
    “Agents of change are often obsessive, intransigent, unreasonable, and demanding.” --— Rebecca Solnit