B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

10:00 - Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    1. It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. --Josh Billings
    2. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. --Michael Crichton
    3. Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. --Ruth Gordon
  2. Speaker 2


    1. History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. --Leonard Louis Levinson
    2. There's two heads to every coin. --Jerry Coleman
    3. It requires more courage to suffer than to die. --Napoleon Bonaparte
  3. Speaker 3


    1. I am like SPAM Some people like me, some people hate me, but nobody knows what I'm made of. --C.J. Harbison
    2. Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. --Aldous Huxley
    3. Fans don't boo nobodies. --Reggie Jackson
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. --Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    2. All things must change to something new, to something strange. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    3. No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. --Bertrand Russell
  5. Speaker 5


    1. No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. --Victor Hugo
    2. The Joker Here we are, the perfect pair... Beauty and the Beast. Mind you, if anybody calls you beast, I'll rip their lungs out. --Batman
    3. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots. --George Santayana
  6. Speaker 6


    1. We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. --Mark Twain
    2. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. --Frank Lloyd Wright
    3. Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. --Gertrude Stein

1:00 - Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    1. All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    2. Religion is what a person does in his solitariness. --Alfred North Whitehead
    3. If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. --Publilius Syrus
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. --Clarence Darrow
    2. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. --Coco Chanel
    3. Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. --Alfred North Whitehead
  3. Speaker 3


    1. When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. --Alice Hoffman
    2. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary. --Julius Rosenwald
    3. Only the winners decide what were war crimes. --Gary Wills
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso
    2. Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. --Horace
    3. There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. --Vincent Van Gogh
  5. Speaker 5


    1. When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. --Charles A. Dana
    2. There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us. --Edward Wallis Hoch
    3. A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. --Archibald Cox
  6. Speaker 6


    1. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. --Louis L'Amour
    2. Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still. --George Eliot
    3. Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this. --Gustave Flaubert

3:45 - Finals

  1. Speaker 1


    1. To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning. --R. D. Laing
    2. Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting. --Burmese Proverb
    3. A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. --John Pierpoint Morgan
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. --Agatha Christie
    2. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. --Joseph Addison
    3. Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  3. Speaker 3


    1. Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. --Henry J. Kaiser
    2. Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all. --Romanian Proverb
    3. Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. --Mickey Rooney
  4. Speaker 4


    1. The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. --Evenius
    2. Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power. --Peter McWilliams
    3. It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. --E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. --John Powell
    2. Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. --Daniel J. Boorstin
    3. Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. --Jorge Luis Borges
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. --Hfiz
    2. The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. --Albert Einstein
    3. Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. --William Faulkner
  7. Speaker 7


    1. Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything. --Madeleine L'Engle
    2. Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. --Samuel Beckett
    3. Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. --W. C. Fields