Speaker 1

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. --Alice Walker
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. --James Baldwin
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 2

"Once you label me you negate me.” --— Kierkegaard
Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. --Kylo Ren, The Last Jedi
There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship. --Ai Weiwei

Speaker 3

“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.” --— Abigail Adams
“Soldiers quartered in a populous town will always occasion two mobs where they prevent one. They are wretched conservators of the peace.” --— John Adams
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. --Andy Warhol

Speaker 4

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. --Andre Malraux
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. --Benjamin Franklin
To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not. --Germany Kent

Speaker 5

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. --Aldous Huxley
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. --Alexis de Tocqueville
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. --Aristotle

Speaker 6

I am the one who knocks. --Breaking Bad
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. --Benjamin Franklin
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. --George Clooney

Speaker 7

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you. --Jenna Jameson
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy --George Washington
He who hath many friends hath none. --Aristotle

Speaker 1

“Competition is merely the absence of oppression.” --— Frédéric Bastiat
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile. --Laura Bush
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate. --Elbert Hubbard

Speaker 2

The only journey is the one within.
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. --Charles Swindoll
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 3

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. --Jackie Kennedy
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in everything.” --— Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice." --— Henry Ford

Speaker 4

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
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. --George Washington
"There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.” --— R. Lee Ermey

Speaker 5

Learning something new is fun. --Alex Trebek
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. --Albus Dumbledore
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years --Abraham Lincoln

Speaker 6

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. --Booker T. Washington
"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” --— Jean de La Fontaine
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. --Benjamin Franklin

Speaker 7

“In the land of ideas, you are always renting.” --— Steven Soderbergh
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. --A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” --— Jacob Riis

Speaker 1

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician.
“There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law." --— Edward Snowden
You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. --Andre Agassi

Speaker 2

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” --— Noam Chomsky
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. --Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 3

Life is to be entered upon with courage. --Alexis de Tocqueville
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. --Aldous Huxley
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” --— Mark Twain

Speaker 4

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.
“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
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles. --Charles Chaplin

Speaker 5

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. --Muhammad Ali
Ideology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. --Eugene Ionesco
"If you sweep a conflict under the rug, eventually you're going to trip on it.” --— Dr. Marilyn Sorensen

Speaker 6

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. --Benjamin Franklin
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. --Malcolm X

Speaker 7

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
"You gotta be good. You gotta be strong. You gotta be 2,000 places at once.” --— Tim Delaughter
We must be our own before we can be another’s

Speaker 1

There’s a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It’s exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don’t cheat yourselves out of this promise.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. --Aldous Huxley
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. --Alice Walker

Speaker 2

"I rant, therefore I am.” --— Dennis Miller
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. --George Washington

Speaker 3

There are more love songs than anything else. --Frank Zappa
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business. --Dolley Madison
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 4

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. --Aldous Huxley
Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this. --Celine Dion
"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." --— Frédéric Bastiat

Speaker 5

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. --Bruce Lee
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. --Aldous Huxley
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 6

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” --— Ingrid Bergman
“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
"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

Speaker 7

The child is father of the man. --William Wordsworth
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. --Blaise Pascal
There is nothing permanent except change. --Heraclitus

Speaker 1

Character is power. --Booker T. Washington
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. --Fred Rogers

Speaker 2

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. --Jane Addams
The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it --Henry David Thoreau

Speaker 3

The only way to stop feeling afraid of something is to face it.
“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. Sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.” --— Vince Lombardi
We are always getting ready to live but never living

Speaker 4

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. --Erma Bombeck
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals. --Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Speaker 5

I am the one who knocks. --Breaking Bad
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. --Mahatma Gandhi
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. --Benjamin Franklin

Speaker 6

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” --— Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” --— Bill Watterson

Speaker 7

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. --Benjamin Franklin
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect. --Fred Rogers
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.