Speaker 1

Reform is just another name for responsibility. --Abhijit Naskar
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. --Albert Einstein
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” --— Thomas Sowell

Speaker 2

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.” --— Frédéric Bastiat
“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

Speaker 3

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” --— James Madison
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. --Benjamin Franklin
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” --— Oscar Wilde

Speaker 4

The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work
"When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.” --— Murphy’s Law
I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them. --George H.W. Bush

Speaker 5

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” --— Albert Einstein
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. --Bruce Lee
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” --— Peter Steiner

Speaker 6

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business. --Dolley Madison
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. --Arthur Conan Doyle
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. --Mark Twain

Speaker 7

They say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true
“The state is a soulless machine. It can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” --— Mahatma Gandhi
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? --Marie Antoinette

Speaker 1

Lost Time is never found again --Benjamin Franklin
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study paintings, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” --— John Adams
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self. --Fred Rogers

Speaker 2

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Speaker 3

"Intellectuals can [be] ready to explain the behaviours of the whole world, but not […] their own situation. As though they alone were beyond the pull of motives.” --— Norman Geras
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
"He brought his ‘C' game. Normally he's a 'D' game kinda guy, but he gave a little bit more this time.” --— Adam Carolla

Speaker 4

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. --Benjamin Franklin
Whoever is new to power is always harsh. --Aeschylus
“For whatever we do, even whatever we do not do prevents us from doing its opposite. Acts demolish their alternatives, that is the paradox.” --— James Salter, Light Years

Speaker 5

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. --Max Lucado
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
"I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.” --— Booker T. Washington

Speaker 6

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone, --Milan Kundera
Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. --Kylo Ren, The Last Jedi
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Speaker 7

Hunger is the best pickle. --Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it." --— George Orwell, 1984

Speaker 1

Take criticism seriously, but not personally. --Hillary Clinton
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. --Benjamin Franklin
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. --Brian Tracy

Speaker 2

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. --Aldous Huxley
“Virtue is not always amiable.” --— John Adams
"Taste is made up of a thousand distastes.” --— Paul Valéry

Speaker 3

“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
Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so. --Michael Leunig
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. --Bob Marley

Speaker 4

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
"Once you label me you negate me.” --— Kierkegaard
All men by nature desire knowledge. --Aristotle

Speaker 5

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. --George Washington
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

Speaker 6

“Because taxation is backed up with the threat of force, it is theft, plain and simple.” --— Adam Kokesh
"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” --— Benjamin Franklin
"Cowards die many times before their deaths." --— Julius Caesar

Speaker 7

Be patient and calm; no one can catch a fish with anger. --Herber Hoover
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. --Fred Rogers
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. --Alexis de Tocqueville

Speaker 1

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. --Andrew Carnegie
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. --Benjamin Franklin
“And in the end, we were all just humans… drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” --— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Speaker 2

“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.” --— Thomas Jefferson
“When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failures or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.” --— Thomas Sowell
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. --Arthur Conan Doyle

Speaker 3

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
"I was not a perfect risk, but I was a risk worth taking.” --— Dwight Gooden
To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Speaker 4

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. --Albert Einstein
"Society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.” --— Thomas Paine
If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all --Bambi

Speaker 5

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. --Aristotle
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. --Ayn Rand
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. --Latin Proverb

Speaker 6

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. --Eleanor Roosevelt
We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest. --John Adams
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Speaker 7

"When you're trying to change, every good decision you make adds up, and saying no gets easier because each day you have more evidence that you can.” --— Elna Baker
The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they're generally not the ones being touted in the news. --Fred Rogers
You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.