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FC Barcelona: Catalan: Més que un club (More than a club) and Catalan: Tots units fem força (All together we are strong) Sport Lisboa e Benfica: E Pluribus Unum (Out of many, one) Feyenoord Rotterdam: Dutch: Geen woorden maar daden (No words but deeds) SS Lazio: Concordia Parvae Res Crescunt (In harmony small things grew)
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The more the merrier; The more things change, the more they stay the same; The only disability in life is a bad attitude – Scott Hamilton; The only way to understand a woman is to love her; The old wooden spoon beats me down; The only way to find a friend is to be one; The pen is mightier than the sword; The pot calling the kettle black
The last words attributed to Archimedes (paraphrased from Valerius Maximus' Memorable Doings and Sayings). During the raid of Syracuse by the Romans, Archimedes was busy drawing mathematical circles. He was eventually attacked and killed by a Roman soldier as he was too engrossed in thought to obey the soldier's orders.
More loosely, "he who excuses himself, accuses himself"—an unprovoked excuse is a sign of guilt. In French, qui s'excuse, s'accuse: exeat: s/he may go out: A formal leave of absence exegi monumentum aere perennius: I have reared a monument more enduring than bronze: Horace, Carmina III:XXX:I exempli gratia (e.g.) for the sake of example, for ...
The Guardian credits rap culture and Black vernacular language as early pioneers of the word, with A Tribe Called Quest releasing "Vibes and Stuff" in 1991 and Quincy Jones notably launching Vibe ...
While some people call it Gen Z slang or Gen Z lingo, these words actually come from Black culture, and their adoption among a wider group of people show how words and phrases from Black ...
i.e., "even more so" or "with even stronger reason". Often used to lead from a less certain proposition to a more evident corollary. a maiore ad minus: from the greater to the smaller: From general to particular; "What holds for all X also holds for one particular X." – argument a fortiori: a minore ad maius: from the smaller to the greater