Speaker 1

Don’t forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror. --Jacques Rigaut
Not all those who wander are lost. --J.R.R. Tolkein (The Fellowship of the Ring)
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 2

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” --— Mark Twain
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. --Les Brown
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." --— C.S. Lewis

Speaker 3

“In the land of ideas, you are always renting.” --— Steven Soderbergh
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. --Aristotle
“I'd rather be No.2 forever than No. 1 for a while.” --— Paul Smith

Speaker 4

Ideology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. --Eugene Ionesco
“Americans try on the spiritual life of others like they don’t have any of their own." --— A.M. Homes
“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” --— Mary Kay Ash

Speaker 5

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am. --Imelda Marcos
“There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.” --— Steven Soderbergh
“We need an anti-politics movement just as surely as we need an antiwar movement.” --— Jeff Deist

Speaker 6

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self. --Fred Rogers
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. --Leonardo Da Vinci

Speaker 1

"Society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.” --— Thomas Paine
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
“A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.” --— Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man

Speaker 2

Being young and beautiful is not a crime, you know
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. --Henry James
“The plans differ; the planners are all alike.” --— Frederic Bastiat

Speaker 3

“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” --— Margaret Thatcher
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. --Marcus Aurelius
There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship. --Ai Weiwei

Speaker 4

“One often contradicts an opinion when it is really only the tone in which it has been presented that is unsympathetic.” --— Friedrich Nietzsche
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be --Maslow
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. --Aldous Huxley

Speaker 5

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” --— Thomas Jefferson
A thousand generations live in you now. But this is your fight. --Luke Skywalker, The Rise of Skywalker
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. --Arnold Glasow

Speaker 6

“Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.” --— Tim Kreider
“In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.” --— James Reston
The only limit is your imagination --Big Hero 6

Speaker 1

“You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind." --— Steven Soderbergh
“If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." --— Thomas Aquinas
“The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.” --— James Donald

Speaker 2

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
"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
“Ridicule educates observers. […] The goal is not to educate the recipient of the ridicule.” --— Ian Miles Cheong

Speaker 3

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.” --— Harry S. Truman
Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it. --Mike Tyson
“To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.” --— Henry Ford

Speaker 4

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” --— Malcolm X
Life is to be entered upon with courage. --Alexis de Tocqueville

Speaker 5

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. --Lillian Dickson

Speaker 6

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. --Eleanor Roosevelt
"If there's anything important about history, it's that stupidity wins.” --— Jerry Casale
"The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free." --— David Mamet

Speaker 1

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." --— Marcus Aurelius
"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.” --— R. Lee Ermey
"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.” --— James A. Garfield

Speaker 2

If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate. --Elbert Hubbard
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.” --— Voltaire
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. --Ann Landers

Speaker 3

Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass. --Louise Erdrich (The Round House)
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” --— Albert Einstein Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. --John J Pershing

Speaker 4

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
“If you allow the government to break the law and to violate your rights because of an emergency, what’s stopping them from creating an emergency to break the law?” --— James Harvey
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Speaker 5

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?
Giving up is for rookies --Hercules

Speaker 6

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. --Erich Fromm
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. --Benjamin Franklin
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. --Anne Frank