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• I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Play, Essentials

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “On the Genealogy of Morals”, Vintage

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• Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.

  Ron Paul

  Reality, People, Perception

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• A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Arrogance, Important

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• The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friends, Book, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.112, Penguin

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• People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

  Mary Catherwood

  People, Doubt, Persons

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.368, tredition

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• Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Important, Trying, Might

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• What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example - like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist's work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism.

  John Yau

  Mean, Artist, Talking

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• Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

  Wendell Willkie

  People, Honor, Wish

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• Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual.

  Michael Pollan

  Community, Groups, Individual

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• I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood, I want to embrace my womanhood.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Men, Feminism, Trying

  "Evangeline Lilly Is ‘Not Interested In Trying To Pretend To Be A Man’". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.

  Yancy Butler

  People, Kicking, Kind

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• Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.

  Dan Miller

  Motivational, Optimistic, People

  Dan Miller, Jared Angaza (2012). “Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate”, p.173, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Friendship, Height, Good Company

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it...It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Race, Political

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• People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word.

  Emma Watson

  Inspiring, Hate, Men

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• When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creative, Together, Faith And Love

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• Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.

  Neill F. Marriott

  Light, Small Acts, Glory

  "Mormon Feminists Surprised By New Wording Referring To Women As ‘Blessed Disciples Of Jesus’" by Peggy Fletcher Stack, September 29, 2014.

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• Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Jobs, Rehabilitation, Consciousness

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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• The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Government, Uniting, May

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “On the Social Contract”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Work, May, Impression

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• The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.

  Sam Walton

  Way, Management, Treats

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• We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Travel, Ocean

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.174

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• Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off!

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Loser, Algebra

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• Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself.

  Bob Cox

  Expectations, Relax, Anticipation

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• Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Intelligent, Self, Discipline

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