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• 'Stay with it' was our coach's motto. That's what we did. This is unreal!

  Andre Iguodala

  Nba Championships, Unreal, Coaches

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• The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.

  Felix Adler

  Heart, Sake, Moral

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

  William Safire

  Latin, Government, Office

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• On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.

  Christopher Reeve

  Wall, Space, Rehabilitation

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• That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

  Lee Child

  Despair, Needs, Towns

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow”, p.1362, Delacorte Press

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• His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Sometimes, Fallen Angels

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• It's my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. 'Nothing less than seven inches.' Meliorn gazed at her stonily. 'I'm talking about my heels,' she said. " It's a pun. You know? A play on-" "Come," the faerie knight said. "The Queen will be growing impatient." He headed down the corridor without giving Isabelle a second glance. "I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. " Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie night club called Hot Wings. Not," he added," that I have ever been there.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Night, Talking

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• There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

  George R. R. Martin

  Badass, Names, Today

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• Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

  Hosea Ballou

  Clergymen, Theme, Preaching

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

  Philip K. Dick

  Memories, Moving, Errors

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Reading, Pride

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• In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

  Gerald Durrell

  Conservation, Should, Dies

  Gerald Durrell (1993). “The Aye-aye and I: A Rescue Mission in Madagascar”, p.161, Arcade Publishing

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• The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Latin, School, Italian

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• I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?

  Wendy Mass

  Sweet, Dad, Life Is Short

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life”

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• Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,” and slipped it under the curve of Anne’s arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Heart, Curves

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.97, e-artnow

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• Drake. He liked dangerous pies." "Why did he join you?" "Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?" "Focus. Why did he join you?" "Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache." p. 432

  Brandon Mull

  Pie, Focus, Risk

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• The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Hero, Funny Things, Coward

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2011.

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• Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

  P. T. Barnum

  Business, Failing

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.61, Applewood Books

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• Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

  Charles Bukowski

  Humanity, My Motto

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.

  Peg Bracken

  Wall, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Say no to death pies. Another good motto.

  Brandon Mull

  Pie

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

  Ilona Andrews

  Kids, Body, Disappear

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• First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Comfort, Firsts, Cliche

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.156, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Lying, Cat, People

  Joe R. Lansdale (2011). “Devil Red”, p.26, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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