Speaker 1

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. – Flora Whittemore

How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese? – Charles De Gaulle

Speaker 2

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Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. – Unknown

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. – Seneca

I ask you men...what are you so afraid of? If I am equal to you in power, does that diminish you?

– Rita Mae Brown

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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. – Publius Syrus

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. –

-Henry Peter Brougham

If they laid all the coeds from Yale end to end...I wouldn't be surprised. – Dorothy Parker

Speaker 4

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The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come

-Peter Ustinov

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. – EJ. Phelps

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. – Oscar Wilde

Speaker 5

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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. – August Hare

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. – Sir Winston Churchill

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When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision. – Lord Falkland

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. – P.J. O’Rourke

When you sling mud, you lose ground. – Adlai Stevenson Jr.

Speaker 1

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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

– Ambrose Bierce

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts. – Henry Bromel

A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture. – Mick Lloyd Kerman

Speaker 2

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MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar. – Ambrose Bierce

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. – Carl Schurz

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain

Speaker 3

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FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. – Ambrose Bierce

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way. – A. Lawrence Lowell

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. – W. Somerset Maugham

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NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. – Ambrose Bierce

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

– Harriet Beecher Stowe

There's a great woman behind every idiot. – John Lennon

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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences. – Ambrose Bierce

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. – Hugh Elliott

Divorces are made in heaven. – Oscar Wilde

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HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half. – Ambrose Bierce

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. – Andre Gide

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. – Thomas Henry Huxley