B. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 (9:30am)
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
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"To err is human; to forgive, divine" — Alexander Pope
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"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" — W. B. Yeats
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"Because I could not stop for death/He kindly stopped for me" — Emily Dickinson
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2
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"I am the master of my fate" — William Ernest Henley
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"Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all" —Tennyson
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"My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun" — Shakespeare"
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3
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"The child is father of the man" — Woodsworth
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"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair" — Shelley
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"Candy/Is dandy/But liquor/Is quicker" — Ogden Nash
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4
- "I wandered lonely as a cloud" — Woodsworth
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"But at my back I always hear" — Marvell
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all"— Keats
Speaker 5
Speaker 5
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"And miles to go before I sleep" — Robert Frost
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"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" — Tennyson
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" A little learning is a dangerous thing" — Alexander Pope
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6
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"Not with a bang but a whimper" — T. S. Elliot
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"The proper study of mankind is man" — Alexander Pope
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"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" — W. B. Yeats
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Speaker 7
Speaker 7
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"To be or not to be: that is the question" — Shakespeare
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“Hope springs eternal in the human breast” — Alexander Pope
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“I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.” — Joyce Kilmer
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Round 2 (1:15pm)
Speaker 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Finals (4:15pm)
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
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It is estimated that 99% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. — New York Times, 2014
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60% of people can’t get through a ten-minute conversation without lying. — University of Massachusetts, 2002
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2% of American voters thought Mitt Romney’s first name was Mittens. — Vanity Fair, 2012
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2
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Only 8% of people manage to keep their New Year’s resolutions. — Statistic Brain Research Institute, 2012
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Between 43% and 54% of pilots have admitted to falling asleep while flying.— European Cockpit Association, 2012
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15% of Google searches have never been searched before. — John Wiley, the lead designer for Google Search, 2013
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3
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20% of the songs on Spotify have received zero plays.
— Forgotify, 2014
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28% of people who work in IT don’t tell their family and friends for fear of being asked for help fixing computers.
— TEKsystems, 2013
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70% of youth in the juvenile justice system have a diagnosed mental illness.
— The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, 2007
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4
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1 in 3 adults don’t get enough sleep.
— Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016
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The world needs to produce at least 50% more food by 2050 to feed a projected 9 billion people.
— United Nations Population Division, 2015
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Only 18% of women major in computer science degrees at colleges and universities.
— National Science Foundation, 2015
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Speaker 5
Speaker 5
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60% of nursing home residents never have visitors.
— VolunteerGuide, 2013
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75% of Gen Z-ers don’t consider college the only path to a strong education.
— Forbes, 2019
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46% of American adults will experience a mental illness during their lifetime.
— National Council for Behavioral Health, 2019
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6
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84% of Americans say we are angrier than a generation ago. — NPR-IBM Watson Health Poll, 2019
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Fewer than 2% of NCAA athletes go on to the professional level. — NCAA, 2018
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One-third of adults still sleep with a comfort object. — Sleepopolis, 2019
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Speaker 7
Speaker 7
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As many as 95% of millennials are "not saving adequately" for retirement.
— National Institute on Retirement Security, 2018
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40% of Americans can’t name a single freedom protected by the First Amendment.
— Freedom Forum Institute, 2018
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Five countries make up 60% of worldwide military.
— Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2018
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