For decades, businesswomen have navigated the very fine line between career-focused ambition and the family-first mantra while often being criticized for stepping too close to the former.
For a while the mantra was "don't be a free user".
Two city councilmen seeking to replace him in a special election runoff — Republican Kevin Faulconer and Democrat David Alvarez — have embraced Filner's neighborhoods-first mantra while scarcely mentioning the former mayor by name.
Despite all indications that unauthorized migration is not the problem it once was, GOP candidates carry on with the politically amenable "more border enforcement" mantra while remaining vague on the harder question: What do we do with the 11.2 million undocumented immigrants already here?
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has taken it a step farther left, proposing free college--and likely candidate Martin O'Malley has adopted the "debt-free college" mantra while proposing policies to ease the pain of existing student debt.
As recounted in "The Quotable Runner," Mr. Dixon, a New Zealander and a world-class miler, repeated this mantra while hunting down Geoff Smith in the 1983 marathon: "A miler's kick does the trick".
"You should consider yourself lucky to work in games" was the overriding mantra while you worked 90 hour weeks on tatty versions of games that supported equally tatty movies.
Finally, the 'time is brain' mantra, while clearly relevant and important, has tended to inhibit research into the use of advanced imaging in patient selection, particularly within the early thrombolytic time window.
And while Republicans like Mitt Romney slandered the "47 percent" as irresponsible "takers," Democrats like President Obama unfortunately repeated the "hard choices" mantra while others, like Nancy Pelosi, expressed a disturbing willingness to cut our already-inadequate Social Security benefits.
I sang the Dewachen prayer and began to recite the "Liberation by Hearing" mantra while we laid together for a half hour.
