Speaker 1

1. "To err is human; to forgive, divine" — Alexander Pope

2. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" — W. B. Yeats

3. "Because I could not stop for death/He kindly stopped for me" — Emily Dickinson

Speaker 2

1. "I am the master of my fate" — William Ernest Henley

2. "Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all" —Tennyson

3. "My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun" — Shakespeare"

Speaker 3

1. "The child is father of the man"  — Woodsworth

2. "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair" — Shelley

3. "Candy/Is dandy/But liquor/Is quicker" — Ogden Nash

Speaker 4

1. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" — Woodsworth

2. "But at my back I always hear" — Marvell

3. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all"— Keats

Speaker 5

1. "And miles to go before I sleep" — Robert Frost

2. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" — Tennyson

3. " A little learning is a dangerous thing" — Alexander Pope

Speaker 6

1. "Not with a bang but a whimper" — T. S. Elliot

2. "The proper study of mankind is man" — Alexander Pope

3. "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" — W. B. Yeats

Speaker 7

1. "To be or not to be: that is the question" — Shakespeare

2. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast” — Alexander Pope

3. “I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.” — Joyce Kilmer

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

Speaker 1

1. It is estimated that 99% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. — New York Times, 2014

2. 60% of people can’t get through a ten-minute conversation without lying. — University of Massachusetts, 2002

3. 2% of American voters thought Mitt Romney’s first name was Mittens. — Vanity Fair, 2012

Speaker 2

1. Only 8% of people manage to keep their New Year’s resolutions. — Statistic Brain Research Institute, 2012

2. Between 43% and 54% of pilots have admitted to falling asleep while flying.— European Cockpit Association, 2012

3. 15% of Google searches have never been searched before. — John Wiley, the lead designer for Google Search, 2013

Speaker 3

1. 20% of the songs on Spotify have received zero plays.

 — Forgotify, 2014

2. 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

3. 70% of youth in the juvenile justice system have a diagnosed mental illness.

— The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, 2007

Speaker 4

1. 1 in 3 adults don’t get enough sleep.

— Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016

2. The world needs to produce at least 50% more food by 2050 to feed a projected 9 billion people.

— United Nations Population Division, 2015

3. Only 18% of women major in computer science degrees at colleges and universities.

— National Science Foundation, 2015

Speaker 5

1. 60% of nursing home residents never have visitors.

— VolunteerGuide, 2013

2. 75% of Gen Z-ers don’t consider college the only path to a strong education.

— Forbes, 2019

3. 46% of American adults will experience a mental illness during their lifetime.

— National Council for Behavioral Health, 2019

Speaker 6

1. 84% of Americans say we are angrier than a generation ago. — NPR-IBM Watson Health Poll, 2019

2. Fewer than 2% of NCAA athletes go on to the professional level. — NCAA, 2018

3. One-third of adults still sleep with a comfort object. — Sleepopolis, 2019

Speaker 7

1. As many as 95% of millennials are "not saving adequately" for retirement.

— National Institute on Retirement Security, 2018

2. 40% of Americans can’t name a single freedom protected by the First Amendment. 

— Freedom Forum Institute, 2018

3. Five countries make up 60% of worldwide military. 

— Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2018