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• Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

  Keri Hulme

  Boys, Fire, Sea

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.94, LSU Press

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• Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

  Christopher Morley

  Fun, Men, Entertaining

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.130, Melville House

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• Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.' It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

  Rachel Caine

  Running, Perfect, Firsts

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.150, Penguin

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• follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)

  Erin Hunter

  Heart, Follow Your Heart

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• Xedrix-"No, our motto is 'everything tastes better with hot sauce.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hot, Sauce, Taste

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• For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Passion, Holiday, Beer

  Alan Sillitoe (1987). “Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader”

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• Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?

  Oswald J. Smith

  Missionary, Should, Missions

  Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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• A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

  Idries Shah

  Race, Giving, Approval

  "Reflections".

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• The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Hug

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• Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Brother, Pressure, Nervous

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• See? You’re the crazy one, you redheaded freak. I’ve been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

  Kirsten Miller

  Crazy, Latin, Phrases

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• The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the simplest math ever. However many terrible, rankling, peeve-inducing things may occur, there are always libraries. And rain-falling-on-sea. And the moon. And love. There is always something to look back on, with satisfaction, or forward to, with joy. There is always a moment where you boggle at the world--at yourself--at the whole, unlikely, precarious business of being alive--and then start laughing

  Caitlin Moran

  Rain, Fall, Math

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• Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.

  Cassandra Clare

  Gossip, Vampire, Trying

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

  Booker T. Washington

  Education, Mind, Done

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• The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

  Mark Twain

  God, Sorry, Lying

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.37, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Friday, Business, Weekend

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• On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

  Mark Twain

  Dance, Dancing, Joy

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.790, GENERAL PRESS

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• Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Sea, Tyrants

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• I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.

  Glenn Gould

  Depression, Depressing, Color

  "The Life and Times of Glenn Gould". Documentary, March 13, 1998.

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• My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

  Venus Williams

  Athlete, My Motto, Happens

  "Tennis star Venus Williams". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 16, 2010.

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• With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]

  Harold Wilson

  Struggle, Science, Survival

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• According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them a second motto: Richesse oblige - one must live up to one's fortune.

  Guy de Rothschild

  Family, Money, Responsibility

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• Look at Satan's reason for rebelling against God. It's not that he doesn't recognize that God is greater than he is. He does. It's just that he doesn't want to play by anybody else's rules. This idea that it is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven is Satan's motto, and it turns out that this is also the motto of contemporary atheists such as Christopher Hitchens.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Atheist, Play, Ideas

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• Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.

  Adoniram Judson

  Christian, Prayer, Adoption

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• Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

  David A. Morse

  Safety, Justice, Social

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