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• My motto is "more mystery, less history".

  Adam Carolla

  Mystery, My Motto

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'

  Petra Kelly

  Gentle, Subversive

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• This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Knowledge, Ideas, Pairs

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Love is hard to offend and quick to forgive. How easily do you get irritated and offended? Some people live by the motto, “Never pass up an opportunity to get upset with your spouse.” When something goes wrong, they quickly take full advantage of it by expressing how hurt or frustrated they are. But this is the opposite reaction of love.

  Alex Kendrick

  Hurt, Opportunity, Love Is

  Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare”, p.26, B&H Publishing Group

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• My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Kings, Winning

  "Shaq: 'My Job Is to Protect The King'" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 13, 2010.

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• in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Father, Heart, Giving

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• I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.

  Isaac Parker

  Men, Innocent Man, Views

  "He Hanged Them High: An Authentic Account of the Fanatical Judge Who Hanged Eighty-Eight Men". Book by Homer Croy, p. 218, 1952.

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• My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."

  Kim Il-sung

  People, Earth, Lifetime

  Comment to Cheondoist independence activist Kim In Jin in 1936. "With the Century". Book by Kim Il-sung, 1992.

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• I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Jobs, Thinking, Agony

  "The Power of the Media, Part I". "The Open Mind", archive.org. 1990.

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• When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'

  Wendy Williams

  Inspirational, Smart, Play

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• I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Use, Turns

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.397

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• Never complain, never explain personal motto of

  Kerry Packer

  Humor, Australia, Complaining

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• A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

  Aldous Huxley

  Community, Identity, Stories

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.

  Savitri Devi

  Strong, Order, Things Change

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• My motto is strong packaging, clear addressing.

  Halldór Laxness

  Strong, Packaging, Clear

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

  Ernestine Rose

  Opposites, Atheism, Agitation

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• My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.

  Renzo Novatore

  Old Things, Smoking, Leaving

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• If you believe, you can achieve - thats my motto!

  Sophie Turner

  Believe, Achieve, Ifs

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• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.

  Emma Goldman

  Blessed, Hands, Dear Ones

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.164, Library of Alexandria

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• When you make giving a priority, something happens inside of you. Especially when it's financially challenging to do so. It's like you loosen your grip on a value system whose motto says, "Money is the key to life and happiness and safety."

  Andy Stanley

  Keys, Safety, Giving

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• It is not easy to fight elections with a development motto and I am glad people of Gujarat rose above personal and emotional tangles and prioritized development over everything else.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Emotional, Rose

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• I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that youre trying to accomplish.

  Ashanti

  Thinking, Trying, Accomplish

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• My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo] to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ass in July.

  Conor McGregor

  Kings, Mean, July

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• The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm".

  Constant Lambert

  Average, Enthusiasm, Gothic

  'Opera' December 1950

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• Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Feelings, Groups, Modern Life

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