Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freudian and, though he was too wise to try to dismiss the sort of art that comes from the dark side of the mind, he felt ill at ease with extreme expressions. Pascal's dictum that the ego is detestable-Le moi est haïssable-was his motto, and he lived up to it with guarded mandarin decorum...
...Possessed, Dostoyevsky offers a characteristic irony: "I have a plan-to go mad." That remark is a motto of one of his literary heirs, Elie Wiesel. A survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel has long been recognized as a visionary, reading symbols in the charred remains of the Holocaust. But it is Wiesel the artist who commands the attention of Theologian-Critic Robert McAfee Brown. In Messenger to All Humanity, Brown provides the best introduction to the score of works that have made Wiesel a leading candidate for the Nobel Prize...
...camaraderie of the club makes it very much of a social organization and the team's motto could almost be, as Lauer puts it, "Once a Classic always a Classic...
...town. "It's not easy to run an agency when the whole work force is either under subpoena or at the Xerox machine," a chagrined Gorsuch told TIME. Known to some subordinates as the "Ice Queen" for her cool demeanor and hard-line approach, Gorsuch has a simple motto: "Do more with less...
...fund has been around under one name or another since 1921, and it is enormously well off, primarily as a result of extraordinary expressions of philanthropy. Its motto is "We take care of our own." Recent bequests from the Samuel Goldwyn estate alone approach $35 million. George Burns just gave the fund a supermarket, and the fund sold it for $600,000. The big gifts and an industrywide payroll deduction plan that now brings in about $2 million a year have accumulated to present assets of $80 million, including the 47 acres in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills...