B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 (9:30am)
Speaker 1
- “... Men are only decent when they are powerless.” — George Orwell
- “There are no facts, only interpretations.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
Speaker 2
- “Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.” — George Orwell
- “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
Speaker 3
- “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." — George Orwell
- “No victor believes in chance.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Every nation criticizes every other one — and they are all correct.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
Speaker 4
- “There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years.” — George Orwell
- “What does not kill me, makes me stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Life is a business that does not cover the costs.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
Speaker 5
- “Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.” — George Orwell
- “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
Speaker 6
- “There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.” — George Orwell
- “Most men are too concerned with themselves to be malicious.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
Speaker 7
- “Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.” — George Orwell
- “He who has a ‘Why?’ in life can tolerate almost any ‘How?’” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
Round 2 (1:15pm)
Speaker 1
- "Not left. Not right. Forward." — Andrew Yang 2020
- "Don't change horses midstream." – Abraham Lincoln 1864
- "First in war, first in peace." – Winfield Scott 1852
Speaker 2
- "We're all in this together." — Beto O’Rourke 2020
- “Yes we can.” — Barack Obama 2008
- "Tell the Truth!" — Grover Cleveland 1884
Speaker 3
- “Not me. Us.” — Bernie Sanders 2020
- "It's never too late to do the right thing." — Evan McMullin 2016
- "Happy Days Are Here Again." — Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932
Speaker 4
- "Slow and Steady Wins the Race." — Jeb Bush 2016
- "There's No Indispensable Man." — Wendell L. Willkie 1940
- "Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge." – Calvin Coolidge 1924
Speaker 5
- "Our Future Is Now." — Tim Ryan 2020
- "We Can Do Better." — John F. Kennedy 1960
- "We are going to win this war and the peace that follows." – Franklin D. Roosevelt 1944
Speaker 6
- "Our best days still lie ahead." — Joe Biden 2020
- "It's Time to Change America." – Bill Clinton 1992
- "Some people talk change, others cause it." – Hubert Humphrey 1968
Speaker 7
- "It's in our hands." — Jill Stein 2016
- "We are the ones we've been waiting for." – Barack Obama 2008
- "We are turning the corner." — Herbert Hoover 1932
Finals (4:15pm)
Speaker 1
Famous Last Words:
"Money can't buy life." — Bob Marley, Jamaican musician
"I knew it! Born in a goddamned hotel room, and dying in a hotel room." — Eugene O'Neill, American playwright
"The drama's over. Applaud." — Augustus Caesar, Roman emperorSpeaker 2
Famous Last Words:
"It is stuffy, sticky, and rainy here at present – but forecasts are more favourable." — J. R. R. Tolkien, postscript of letter to his daughter
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." — Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright
"I'm still learning." — Michelangelo, Italian artist and poetSpeaker 3
Famous Last Words
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” — Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and scientist
"I am a queen, but I have not the power to move my arms." — Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia
"I should have been a concert pianist." — Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicistSpeaker 4
Famous Last Words:
“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." — Che Guevara, Argentinian revolutionary, facing his captors
"Now is not the time for making new enemies."— Voltaire, French writer, when asked by a priest to renounce Satan before his death
"I'm begging you, let me work!" — Osamu Tezuka, Japanese cartoonist, to a nurse who tried to take away his drawing equipmentSpeaker 5
Famous Last Words:
"I'm finished. I don't even trust myself." — Joseph Stalin
"I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is correct." — Dominique Bouhours, French priest and grammarian
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart..." — Anne Frank, German diaristSpeaker 6
Famous Last Words:
"At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves." — George Orwell, English author, dying at the age of 46
“Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!” — Karl Marx, political theorist
"All the damn fool things you do in life you pay for." — Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriterSpeaker 7
Famous Last Words
“You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!” — Huey P. Newton, American activist
"I'm bored with it all." — Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom
"Happy." — Raphael, Italian artist