J.J. Gertler, Co-founder APDA, has provided me with a list of motions debated in APDA during the late 1970s and early '80s.

       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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