2022 Phi Rho Pi Region IV REGIONALS

McHenry County College - Mar 18-19 | Status: Completed | 9:09 AM Central

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  A. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1A 9:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    “I hope I die before I get old.”  The Who/Pete Townsend

    “Let no one think for a moment that national debate means national division.” Lyndon Baines Johnson from a commencement address.

  2. Speaker 2


    “Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”  Aesop/”Fables”

    “The highest result of education is tolerance.”  Helen Keller

    “Equal laws protecting equal rights … the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.”  James Madison (letter), American President

  3. Speaker 3


    “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”  Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence 

    “Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.”  Will Rogers,  20th Century American Humorist

    “The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.”  Franklin D, Roosevelt, 1940

  4. Speaker 4


    “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”  George Burns/American actor and humorist 

    “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf  of tyranny and oppression.”  Malcolm X, Speech, 1965 

    “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”  Edward R. Murrow, American News Broadcaster

  5. Speaker 5


    "Don't let it end like this. Tell them, I said something."  -Likely Apocryphal Last Words of Pancho Villa (July 20,1923) 

    “To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.” -Aldo Leopold, "Conservation" Round River (1953)

    “Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty.”  -Gary Paulson

  6. Speaker 6


    "Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind." -- Shûsaku Endô, Silence (1966) 

    “Ultimately, saying that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. Or that you don’t care about freedom of the press because you don’t like to read. Or that you don’t care about freedom of religion because you don’t believe in God.” -Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (2019) 

    “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” --Squire Bill Widener of Widener’s Valley, Virginia)

Round 2A 10:15am

  1. Speaker 1


    “We wanted flying cars; instead we got 140 characters.” - Peter Thiel, What Happened to the Future?

     

    “There’s no reason why the future should happen only at Stanford, or in college, or in Silicon Valley.” 

    — Peter Thiel

     

     

    “Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.” 

    — Peter Thiel

  2. Speaker 2


    “Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it.” 

    — Peter Thiel 

     

    “Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.” 

    — Peter Thiel 

     

    “Today’s ‘best practices’ lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.” 

    — Peter Thiel

  3. Speaker 3


    “Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.” 

    — Peter Thiel 

     

    “Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.” 

    — Peter Thiel 

     

    “The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.” 

    — Peter Thiel

  4. Speaker 4


    “Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.” 

    — Peter Thiel 

     

    “What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.” 

    — Peter Thiel 

     

    “Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.” 

    — Peter Thiel

  5. Speaker 5


    “We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.” 

    — Peter Thiel 

    “Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It’s hard to work toward a radically better future if you don’t believe in secrets.” 

    — Peter Thiel 

     

    “All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.” 

    — Peter Thiel

  6. Speaker 6


    “Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.” 

    — Peter Thiel 

     

    “The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.” 

    — Peter Thiel 

     

    “If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.” 

    — Peter Thiel

Final Round A 3:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. 

    Jane Austen 

     

    To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. 

    Jane Austen 

     

    Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? 

    Jane Austen

  2. Speaker 2


    One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. 

    Jane Austen, Emma 

     

    Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. 

    Jane Austen, Emma 

     

    A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. 

    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

  3. Speaker 3


    Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. 

    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park 

     

    Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. 

    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park 

     

    We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. 

    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

  4. Speaker 4


    Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else. 

    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park 

     

    But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. 

    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey 

     

    Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. 

    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  5. Speaker 5


    "When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure." 

    - Jane Austen, 'Persuasion'. 

     

    "I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion." 

    – Jane Austen, letter, 1801. 

     

    "I have not the pleasure of understanding you." 

    -Jane Austen.

  6. Speaker 6


    "Till this moment I never knew myself." 

    -Jane Austen. 

     

    "Everything nourishes what is strong already" 

    - Jane Austen. 

     

    "Nothing is more deceitful…than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast." 

    -Jane Austin.