J.J. Gertler, Co-founder APDA, has provided me with a list
of motions debated in APDA during the late 1970s and early '80s.
Final round resolution at Glasgow 1981 was:
Be it resolved that this House regrets living in the nuclear age.
Be it Resolved That:
- The U.S. should pull out
- Time is on our side
- The spirit has died
- The United Nations is organized hypocrisy
- The invisible hand has disappeared
- Man is corrupted by knowledge
- We are turning Japanese
- The moment a man is convinced he is interesting, he no longer
is
- Judge not, that ye not be judged
- Even victors are by victory undone
- This is hell
- The information highway is littered with roadkill
- This House would give the Devil the benefit of the law
- We don't need artists
- History is Frankenstein's bride
- Life is a matter of choosing one's moments
- This House would choose faith over science
- The only art that is worthwhile is that which pulls down our
pants and taunts us
- Television is a vast wasteland
- We are lost in the supermarket of ideas
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- Necessity is the father of invention
- The lady doth protest too much
- Progress depends on the unreasonable man
- Science is the enemy of the people
- The world is flat
- There can be no E.R. without an A
- Chicken Little was right
- Mother knows best
- Little things mean a lot
- Waiting is the hardest part
- A hungry man is not a free man
- Art upsets, science reassures
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him
- If you have to ask, you'll never know
- Armed neutrality is ineffective at best
- Changes in society are outpacing our ability to adapt
- There's never been a better time than now
- It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken
- Patriotism is the last resort of a scoundrel
- All's quiet on the western front
- It enhances the desire, but takes away from the performance
- Brevity is the soul of wit
- It is good to have a giant's strength, but tyrannous to use
it as a giant
- Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy
- Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
- Where there's a will, there's a way
- Reality is only a word
- Argument is the worst sort of conversation
- Familiarity breeds contempt
- Familiarity breeds attempt
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