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• You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Ask Me, Asks

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• That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

  Amy Poehler

  Should, Please, Repeats

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.

  Tamara Mellon

  Inspirational, Trying, Failing

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• Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.

  David Starr Jordan

  Country, Caring, People

  David Starr Jordan (1910). “The Call of the Nation: A Plea for Taking Politics Out of Politics”

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• My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple".

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Simple, Light

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• The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Clever, Intellectual

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK

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• Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Inferno, Force

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Love, Glasses, People

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• I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Order, Hammers, Tools

  Stephen Jay Gould (1996). “Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin”, Harmony

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• Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

  Jay McInerney

  Drink, My Motto

  Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

  Chris Cleave

  Beautiful, Thinking, Stronger

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• Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, Yards

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• And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.

  Michael N. Castle

  Past, Honor, Stories

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• Someone told me something that stuck with me: "You have to envision your life, and then go backwards." I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

  Bruno Mars

  Trying, Needs, Stuck

  "Bruno Mars heads for the stars with new album". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2010.

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• We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Our World, People

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.13, Zondervan

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• Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward!

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Usual, Earth

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1188, Penguin

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• Diversity, that is my motto.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Diversity, My Motto, Variety

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• Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

  George Farquhar

  Player, Wicked, Genius

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• I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Communication, House

  Gerald R. Ford's address to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974.

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• Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Stars, War, Rights

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• There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

  Matthew Arnold

  Bishops, Culture, Reason

  Matthew Arnold (2016). “Culture and Anarchy”, p.8, BookRix

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• I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.

  Willow Smith

  Eye, Closets, Picks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

  Simon Winchester

  Greed, Used, Extraordinary

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• You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.

  Kim Basinger

  Journey, Years, Insecurity

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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