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• This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wall, Home, Heart

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.128, Beacon Press

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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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• To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

  Robert Asprin

  Protection, Racket, Traditional

  Robert Asprin (1990). “M.Y.T.H. Inc. in action”

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• Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Giving Up, Trying, Succeed

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• Welcome to Perdido beach, where our motto is: Radiation, what radiation?

  Michael Grant

  Beach, Gone, Radiation

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• EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.

  Neil Gaiman

  Father, New Beginnings, Son

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• I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

  Sarah Vowell

  Coffee, Drink, Used

  Sarah Vowell (2001). “Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

  Rene Descartes

  Desire, Unseen, Live Well

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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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• Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.

  Michelle Malkin

  Team, Life Is Good, Ivy

  "Obama's Egghead Economic Saboteurs" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 8, 2011.

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• And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.

  Ian Fleming

  Hurt, Jobs, Men

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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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• 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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• follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)

  Erin Hunter

  Heart, Follow Your Heart

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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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• 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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• To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Literature, Following

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• The gull sees farthest who flies highest

  Richard Bach

  Achievement, Vision, Gulls

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Asteros's Motto: "Most experience comes from bad judgement.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Judgement

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• The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

  Charles Studd

  Home, Light, Shining

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