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• The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Strong, War

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.599, Best Books on

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• I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Transcendentalism, Anarchist

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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• The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, Servant Of God, Religion

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• The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the land and the heritage of its indigenous peoples and provides justice and equity for all. I think reconciliation is about changing the structures that govern us and trying to influence opinion leaders in whatever way we can.

  Jackie Huggins

  Thinking, Essence, Australia

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• A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Men, Practice, Thee

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.

  Tim Duncan

  Running, Play, Minutes

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• For as long as (the Founding Fathers of this nation) lived and led, they acknowledged the hand of the Almighty in the affairs of this republic. Our coinage and our currency carry the national motto. It simply says, 'In God We Trust.' I believe this is the foundation upon which this nation was established, an unequivocal trust in the power of the Almighty to guide and defend us.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Believe, Hands

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• You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Effort

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• My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

  Edwin Land

  Important, May, Impossible

  "The Vindication of Edwin Land". Forbes Magazine, Volume 139 (p. 83), May 4, 1987.

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• My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

  Joe Strummer

  Thinking, Trying, Needs

  Interview with Corey Levitan, Rolling Stone Online, December 02, 1999.

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• A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

  Billy Collins

  Firsts, Succeed, Evidence

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• My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

  Alan Shearer

  Giving, Life Is, Cents

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• The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.

  Max Atkinson

  Ideas, World, May

  Max Atkinson (2005). “Lend Me Your Ears: All You Need to Know about Making Speeches and Presentations”, p.14, Oxford University Press

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• My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.

  Joe Teti

  Smart, Stupid, Simple

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• I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving, Forever, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 31: 1 February 1799 to 31 May 1800”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Simple, Men, Ak 47

  "Kalashnikov, 90, decries 'criminal' use of rifle" by Dmitry Solovyov and Michael Roddy, www.reuters.com. October 26, 2009.

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• The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

  Alvin Dark

  Giants, Shut Up, Deals

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• A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Pirate, Satiety, Piracy

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• I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Acquire

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• Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

  Erik Naggum

  Animal, People, Together

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• My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

  Kiran Bedi

  Trying, Target, Impossible

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• And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.

  George Seldes

  Brother, Father, World

  George Seldes (2011). “Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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• Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

  Alan Perlis

  Thinking, Research, Today

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• It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

  Mike Myers

  Thinking, Canada, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God. Even if there were a devil, it would be our duty to remember God always, and not the devil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Helping Others, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1746, Manonmani Publishers

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