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• The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an overarching logic, but by association; the impression that prose gives is that it can go anywhere in a manner wholly unpredictable.

  Stanley Fish

  Mean, Giving, Style

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, America, Secret

  Democracy in America vol. 2, ch. 4 (1835) (translation by Henry Reeve)

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• Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Air, People, Pay

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures”

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• If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Balance, Culture

  "The Culture of Cities, Secker & Warburg". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1938.

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• Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

  Saadi

  Opportunity, Decline, Fortune

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• Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Science, Together

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Virtuous Woman, Refined

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• A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

  Ugo Betti

  Marriage, Men, Long

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.

  Wendell Berry

  Technology, People, Political

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.58, Counterpoint Press

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• And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Heart, Names, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Marriage, Beautiful, Protection

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.

  Jennifer James

  Peace, Kindness, Children

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• Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Giving, Feelings

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter (2000). “Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977”, ABRAMS

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• It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!

  Conrad Aiken

  Memories, Writing, Always Trying

  Conrad Aiken (2015). “Blue Voyage: A Novel”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• At quite uncertain times and places,
  The atoms left their heavenly path,
  And by fortuitous embraces,
  Engendered all that being hath.
  And though they seem to cling together,
  And form 'associations' here,
  Yet, soon or late, they burst their tether,
  And through the depths of space career.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Careers, Space

  James Clerk Maxwell, “Molecular Evolution”

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• I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Ideas, May

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• The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

  Socrates

  Death, Philosophy, Soul

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• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

  Larry Kramer

  Pride, Gay, Thinking

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• There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

  Gus Van Sant

  Family, Character, Circles

  "EXCLUSIVE: Gus Van Sant Talks Restless Blu-ray" by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

  Joyce Banda

  Organization, Giving, Leader

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• If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

  Jack Abramoff

  Government, Organization, Staff

  "Jack Abramoff, In New Book, Decries Endemic Corruption In Washington" by Dan Froomkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of the National Governors Association - just to name a few. But my most cherished job - and frankly my most important job for that matter - is being a father.

  Thomas Carper

  Jobs, Father, Boys

  "Showing a Father’s Love by Protecting Our Children’s Health" by Tom Carper, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

  Peter Cushing

  Thinking, Sound, Done

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• Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Beautiful, Witty, Giving

  A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)

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• With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

  Rene Dubos

  Life, States, Circumstances

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.27, Rutgers University Press

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