2026 PSCFA Warm-Up

El Camino College - Sep 26-27 | Status: Completed | 6:06 PM Pacific

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Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    1. “All men by nature desire to know.” — Aristotle 2. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato 3. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

  2. Speaker 2


    1. “Man is by nature a political animal.” — Aristotle 2. “The true creator is necessity, which is the mother of our invention.” — Plato 3. “I neither know nor think that I know.” — Socrates

  3. Speaker 3


    1. “One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.” — Aristotle 2. “Philosophy begins in wonder.” — Plato 3. “No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.” — Socrates

  4. Speaker 4


    1. “The whole is something besides the parts.” — Aristotle 2. “Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils.” — Plato 3. “The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better, God only knows.” — Socrates

  5. Speaker 5


    1. “We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” — Aristotle 2. “Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.” — Plato 3. “It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.” — Socrates

  6. Speaker 6


    1. “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Attributed to Aristotle 2. “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.” — Plato 3. “We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.” — Socrates

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    1. “In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” — Julia Child 2. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” — Yogi Berra 3. “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde

  2. Speaker 2


    1. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” — Kurt Vonnegut 2. “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” — Mae West 3. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” — Benjamin Franklin

  3. Speaker 3


    1. “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” — Muhammad Ali 2. “Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” — Mark Twain 3. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde

  4. Speaker 4


    1. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” — Oscar Wilde 2. “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” — Benjamin Franklin 3. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” — Mark Twain

  5. Speaker 5


    1. “Questions are never indiscreet; answers sometimes are.” — Oscar Wilde 2. “Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin 3. “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” — Mark Twain

  6. Speaker 6


    1. “It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.” — Oscar Wilde 2. “Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin 3. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” — Mark Twain