motto

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The official pararescue motto is "These Things We Do, That Others May Live", and their work is considered part of a broader promise to US service members that they will not be left behind.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

"I always say to people, do what scares you," she says of her personal motto.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

“Out with the old mess, in with the new” is the reality genre’s unspoken motto, but let’s think about what that means here.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

Perhaps that’s because the audience, in the script, is cast as attendees of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertude Stein’s brunch meeting, whose motto is “no men, no meat, all manners.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Dr. Alirio Noguera had arrived in Macondo a few years before with a medicine chest of tasteless pills and a medical motto that convinced no one: One nail draws another.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez