Table Topics 15 March 2024

Bukit Merah Toastmasters Club

Theme : Quotation From Books

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1 - The Last Lecture

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2 - Dark Matter

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3 - Yes Please

we are wrong

4 - Modern Romance

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5 - The Night Circus

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6 - Sharp Objects

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7 - When Breath Becomes Air

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8 - The Underground Railroad

Table Topic 1

A good apology is like antibiotic; a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Table Topic 2

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. – Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

Table Topic 3

I believe great people do things before they are ready. – Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Table Topic 4

While we may think we know what we want, we’re often wrong. – Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

Table Topic 5

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in. – Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Table Topic 6

Problems always start long before you really, really see them. – Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

Table Topic 7

Life wasn’t about avoiding suffering. – Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

Table Topic 8

Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth. – Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad