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"Remember your towel" is my personal favorite. Well anyway, a motto, hmmm... "They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce." -Mark Twain
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That is good. Have you read God's final message to His creatures, from "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish"? "We are sorry for the inconveniance." That's only part of the joke. Every letter except for the is seperated by commentary so you have to work out what it says. It also happens to be the only thing Marvin is happy about!!!!!
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Yes, I have read that. I have read at least a tiny exerpt of each book in the Hitchhiker's series.
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I say our motto should be something by either Douglas Adams or Mark Twain. Here's another good one: "Classic" A book that people praise and don't read. -Twain
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his plaint about our disunity in another threadNo, not me, guv! One of the main things about this board I cherish is the lack of agreement – it has helped underline for me the extraordinary strength achieved through diversity. Babel save us all from the TRUTH – people down through the ages have taken their particular brand of this madness as a good excuse for a bonfire… So, Max, add me to the queue for auto da fe behind Jackie  But I know, tsuwm – that was really just a good excuse to resurrect a bit of Middle English, wasn’t it?! I love all of these quotes - so shall be completely undecided when it comes to determine the TRUTH about which we should consign to history. 
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Babel save us all from the TRUTH – people down through the ages have taken their particular brand of this madness as a good excuse for a bonfire…Absolutely, but at least some of such people chose to be burned rather than do the burning. 
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One more Motto suggestion from me - from one of my favorite poets:
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart;
and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
-Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
(poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate)
I use it as my 'signature' on regular e-mail... and sometimes get some interesting comments from it's inclusion!
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Here's my suggestion for a motto:
IMPENETRABILITAS
This is the background for it. (I hope you enjoy meeting up with this again as much as I did):
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words to mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."
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"Impenetrability! That's what I say!"
"Would you tell me please," said Alice, "what that means?"
"Now you talk like a reasonable child," said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. "I meant by 'impenetrability' that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life."
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In reply to:
Here's my suggestion for a motto:
IMPENETRABILITAS
This is the background for it. (I hope you enjoy meeting up with this again as much as I did):
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
Given the context, perhaps Humpty's definition of "glory" would be equally apt for a motto here.
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How about a bit of a variation on the family motto that appears on our coat of arms...
Family and friends, first, forever and always.
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