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• [On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Art, Collecting, Collections

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• My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Mother, Father, Heart

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.25, Random House

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• Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

  Ethel Mumford

  Widows, Orphan, Robbing

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• The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

  Ethel Mumford

  Doctors, Patient

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• If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Responsibility, Men, Class

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• Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, Holocaust

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• Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the debasing and sensual tendencies of the race. Favored by temperament and education, individuals may measurably escape; but if the race is to triumph in the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, between the lower propensities and the higher nature, they must, as Constantine is said to have done, see the cross, and on it the motto, "In hoc signo vinces." By this sign we conquer.

  Mark Hopkins

  Spiritual, Race, Sensual

  MARK HOPKINS (1862). “BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES”, p.189

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• I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

  Carrie Fisher

  Giving, Advice, Crisis

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• I never let myself get psyched out. My motto is, ‘Stay calm and carry on.’

  Mary Cain

  Stay Calm, Calm, My Motto

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• Good riddance to bad rubbish.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Good Riddance, Rubbish, Riddance

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.45, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto

  Robert Asprin

  Blessed, Sides, Peacemaker

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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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• His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

  George Orwell

  Answers, Problem, Work Harder

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

  Larry Hagman

  Cancer, Believe, Worry

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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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• Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

  Robert Burns

  Learning, Silence

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• Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Journey, Weakness, Before Death

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.831, Macmillan

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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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