Association Quotes

• A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

  Will Rogers

  Smart, Book, Communication

  "The Will Rogers Book".

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• We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

  Mark Twain

  Struggle, Training, Strange

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

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• Like associates with like.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Associates

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• We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Mediocrity, Gains

  Charles Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Mary Lamb (1971). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1820”

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• Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ideas, Humanity, Honor

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• I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

  Michael Richards

  Character, Envelopes, Spontaneity

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• I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

  Howard Dean

  Rifles, World Affairs

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• Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Awards, Partners

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, Vintage

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• During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

  Paul Getty

  Friendship, Venture, Economy

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• An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

  Ovid

  Fear, Medicine, Understanding

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• According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

  Xavier Becerra

  Heart, African American, United States

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• A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

  Walter Scott

  Faithful, Nails, Wrecks

  "The Talisman".

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• Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Historical, Violence

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• Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Memories, Groups, Different

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• There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

  Terence Fisher

  Loss, Preparation, Important

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• It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Photography, Lying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1954). “Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford”

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• No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

  Louis L'Amour

  Memories, Dozen, Ends

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.937, Bantam

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• I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.

  Elmer Bernstein

  Years, Car, Comedy

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• What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Fundamentals, Individual, Intimate

  "The Supreme Court; Excerpts From Major Opinions". Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1994.

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• A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Party, Political, Literature

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• If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Looks, Missions, Broadcasting

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• The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Mean, Answers, May

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

  Lech Walesa

  Independent, People, Unions

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• I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

  Lois Capps

  Effort, Events, Needs

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• The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Aquariums, Literature

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