B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1B 4:00pm

Speaker 1

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw

The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians -- who are Hogmies. – Ambrose Bierce

We must love one another or die. – W.H. Auden

Speaker 2

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. – Plato

IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another. – Ambrose Bierce

One more drink and I’ll be under the host. – Dorothy Parker

Speaker 3

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I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the commonly accepted standards being artificial, arbitrary and fallacious – Ambrose Bierce

They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist---  General John Sedgwick Union General, last words

Speaker 4

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There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. – Franklin P. Adams

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. – Ambrose Bierce

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Speaker 5

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I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. – Dorothy Parker

RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments. – Ambrose Bierce

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. – Oscar Wilde

Speaker 6

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. – Thomas Mann

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. – Ambrose Bierce

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. – Alan Watts

Speaker 7

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Round 2B 8:00am

Speaker 1

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult. – Barack Obama

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. - Anonymous

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. – Henry Miller

Speaker 2

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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. – Horace Mann

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. – H. L. Mencken

Turn on, tune in and drop out. – Timothy Leary

Speaker 3

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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. – Rebecca West

Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. – Woody Allen

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. – Doctor Who

Speaker 4

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Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust. – Mary Field Belenky

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth. - Lillian Hellman
Speaker 5

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Life is full of surprises and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. – Condoleeza Rice

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. – Sir Winston Churchill

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana

Speaker 6

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When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have. – Owen Wister

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. – Desmond Morris

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. – Charles Anderson Dana

Speaker 7

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Finals 11:00am

Speaker 1

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My salad days, When I was green in judgment. – William Shakespeare

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. – George Santayana

Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves. – Laurie Jo Wojcik

Speaker 2

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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. – Woodrow Wilson

All the sounds of the earth are like music. – Oscar Hammerstein II

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. – Harriet Braiker

Speaker 3

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The secret of being boring is to say everything. - Voltaire

Science is but the statement of truth found out. – Coley

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research. – Cythina Nelms

Speaker 4

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If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks. – Frederick the Great

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Rules are for people who don't know how to get around them. – Tori Harrison

Speaker 5

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Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world. – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. – Beaumarchis

If you talk enough, you don't feel you have to _do_ anything. – John Updike’s Mother

Speaker 6

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That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it. – Terence

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events. – Lawrence J. Peters

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. – Carole Burnett

Speaker 7

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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. – Nora Ephron

"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it. – Author Unknown

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. - Democritus