Speaker 1

Speaker 1

“If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.” --— John Adams 

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. --Albert Camus 

"The language of film is universal.” --— Intro to Movies

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Speaker 2

Thus only groweth man aloft to the height where the lightning striketh and shattereth him: high enough for the lightning! --Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra 

"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it." --— Ernst Fischer 

Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

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Speaker 3

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” --— George Bernard Shaw 

“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” --— Frank Zappa 

"It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder." --— Frédéric Bastiat

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Speaker 4

“It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men’s property, which they had not before, as individuals.” --— Lysander Spooner 

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” --— Eric Hoffer 

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” --— Margaret Mead

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Speaker 5

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. --Aesop 

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. --Bill Gates 

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." --— Marcus Aurelius

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peaker 6

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. 

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. --Aldous Huxley 

All men must serve. --Game of Thrones

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Speaker 7

“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.” --— Alan Coren 

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. 

I'm thankful for every moment. --Al Green

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Speaker 1

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. --General Montgomery 

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. --Aldous Huxley 

"Brevity is the soul of wit.” --— Hamlet

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Speaker 2

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. --Aesop 

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. 

“Everyone is the most important person in the world—at least to that one person." --— Ben Folds

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Speaker 3

"For society is nothing but collaboration." --— Ludwig von Mises 

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. 

Great lives never go out; they go on. --Benjamin Harrison

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Speaker 4

“Every nation, whether rich or poor, powerful or feeble, can at any hour once again adopt the gold standard.” --— Ludwig von Mises 

Do not look outside yourself for the leader. For we are the ones we have been waiting for. --Except from “To My Fellow Swimmers” by the Elders of the Hopi Nation 

Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.

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Speaker 5

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. --Aung San Suu Kyi 

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. --Jonas Salk 

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. --Aristotle

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Speaker 6

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. --Albert Einstein 

“American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.” --— Frank Zappa 

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. --Leonardo Da Vinci

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Speaker 7

Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope 

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. 

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. --Alexander Hamilton

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Speaker 1

Faint hearts never won fair lady 

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. 

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. --Aristophanes

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Speaker 2

"In all countries I know, more of their citizens have come to live in America than Americans have left to live in theirs.” --— Neil deGrasse Tyson 

“One often contradicts an opinion when it is really only the tone in which it has been presented that is unsympathetic.” --— Friedrich Nietzsche 

"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.” --— Amelia Earhart

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Speaker 3

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. --Lucretius 

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. --Albert Einstein 

Beware the hobby that eats. --Benjamin Franklin

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Speaker 4

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. --Babe Ruth 

The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all --Mulan 

“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.” --— Andy Weir

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Speaker 5

Always let your conscience be your guide 

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” --— Robert Frost 

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue --James Monroe

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Speaker 6

The worst monsters are the ones we create. --Geralt of Rivia 

“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.” --— Robert A. Heinlein 

I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence. --DeRay Mckesson

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Speaker 7

A woman is like a teabag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. --Eleanor Roosevelt 

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. --Bruce Lee 

“Even the things that seem still are still changing.” --— Ben Folds