motto
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Mr. Schatz doesn’t quote William Goldman’s maxim about the movie industry—“nobody knows anything”—but it could stand as his book’s motto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"The Tennessee license plate used to have a sign on it, or a little motto that said, 'Follow me to Tennessee,'" Bessent said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
With the hotel motto being “stay by your own rules,” Rudolph says it was important for them to make the rooms adaptable to each guest’s needs and to prioritize comfort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
But she says there is much she is proud of too - and Facebook's infamous "move fast and break things" motto was a "misunderstood value in isolation".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Soon the motto was revealed once more, in all its optimistic glory.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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One of my mottoes was “aliveness over prowess.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
The team writing the mottoes for next year’s batch of Sweethearts has already developed a new theme aimed at that demographic sweet spot.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
We’ve broken quietude in new ways, re-examined what we thought we knew, carried phrases as mottoes, or leverage.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
On display you’ll find mottoes for the 1917 Negro Silent Protest Parade and the almost-exactly-100-year-old manuscript for a speech delivered by W.E.B.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2019
Family mottoes, touchstones, prayers of sorts, they boasted of honor and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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"Never forget, never forgive - this is one of the mottos that reminds us who we are, what we have been through, and how resilient we Bosnians are," says Dokic.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Even when the season felt like a shadow of what it once was, her voice — her methods, her mottos, her insistence that anyone could learn — persisted.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025
One of Sheinbaum’s mottos: “Collaboration, coordination, without subordination. ... Sovereignty is not negotiable.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
“In adopting their mottos, symbols, and ethos on the field of friendly strife, we seek to emulate their application of these characteristics to defeat our rivals,” the school said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
One of Hitler’s mottos was that the German woman does not smoke, does not drink, and does not paint herself with makeup.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
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