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• One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

  Aldo Rossi

  Memories, Cities, Collective Memory

  Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press

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• Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

  Saul Bellow

  Happiness, Book, People

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.140, Penguin

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• The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

  Peter Joseph

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV.

  Randall Wright

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• When you gossip about another person, listeners unconsciously associate you with the characteristics you are describing, ultimately leading to those characteristics' being “transferred” to you. So, say positive and pleasant things about friends and colleagues, and you are seen as a nice person. In contrast, constantly complain about their failings, and people will unconsciously apply the negative traits and incompetence to you.

  Richard Wiseman

  Nice, Gossip, People

  Richard Wiseman (2009). “59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot”, p.58, Anchor

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• Business associates? Ouch. That’s worse than friends

  Julie James

  Ouch

  Julie James (2008). “Just the Sexiest Man Alive”, p.161, Penguin

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• The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

  Bono

  Father, People, Trying

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• A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

  Josh Billings

  Dog, Play, Pups

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• I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Adventure, Oysters

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black

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• When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who are wearing sandals, Indian smocks, and are in search of enlightenment, antiquity, peace, and all the things they can't get in the west. Most of the people they meet are Nepali villagers in Lee jeans, Reeboks, and Madonna T-shirts who are looking for the paradise that they associate with Los Angeles - a paradise of material prosperity and abundance.

  Pico Iyer

  Jeans, California, People

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• Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

  Ayn Rand

  People, Evil, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Bullying, Fun, Responsibility

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

  Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations, Done, May

  Charles Dickens (2010). “Pip and the Zombies”, p.192, Lulu.com

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• Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Travel, Home

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Gun, Careers, Atheism

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• If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Song, Simple, Speak

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• I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, People, Danger

  "A multitude of Malkovich" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

  Shirley Manson

  Hair, Pale Skin, People

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• If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

  Robert Morgan

  People, Fine, Regions

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• I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior, which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

  Kate Moss

  Business, Apology, People

  "Kate Moss: Sorry I let people down". www.cnn.com. September 22, 2005.

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• Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

  Mira Nair

  Humility, America, Traits

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• I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

  Bill Nighy

  Groups, Want, Politician

  "Bill Nighy takes Robin Hood tax to the G20" by Patrick Wintour and Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2011.

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• People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Looks, Illegal

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• We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Vices, Virtue

  "Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts". Book by Edmund Fuller, 1942.

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• Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.

  Merlin Stone

  Acceptance, Calling, Might

  Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.250, Doubleday

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