Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...storm created by his own confession buffeted Clements, he had good cause to wonder about the merits of S.M.U.'s motto: "The truth shall make you free...
...would go further. I think the Board itself should be more democratic. To begin with, it is a disgrace to a university whose motto is "veritas" that the Board's meetings and actions should be secret. What do they discuss in those meetings? Secret weapons? Troop movements? What? To judge by the minutes of long ago--opened by the University Archives after a discreet 50 years--the meetings are excruciatingly boring. Maybe that is the secret...
...Edmunds performs an almost unimaginable feat. Here, the former member of Rockpile gets away with covering both Elvises, Presley and Costello, on the same side of the same album. Rather than taking the advice of another famous rocker, whose trademark is "Cover me," Edmunds has here adopted as his motto, "Cover everyone...
Those words could serve as the official motto of the Harvard men's soccer team...
...always brings back my aunt saying when I was a kid living with her: Drink it all up now, that broth'll stick to your ribs." She looks at stale sayings with new eyes: "Don't cross your bridges till you come to them is my motto, though how you can cross a bridge before coming to it I've never properly understood...