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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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• It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

  Omar Bongo

  Fighting, Islam, Crusades

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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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• It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Money, Business

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• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) See Edmund Burke 28; Mill 18

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• I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful religion if you learn it the right way.

  Dave Chappelle

  Beautiful, Believe, People

  "On the Beach With Dave Chappelle". Interview with Simon Robinson, content.time.com. May 15, 2005.

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• There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.

  Diablo Cody

  Strong, Emotional, Childhood

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

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Looks, Illegal

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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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• I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men come around that I don't know, I just immediately throw shade on them. But I don't associate with fellas all that much; if it's a girl - a beautiful girl - I be nice.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

  Helen Fisher

  Animal, Height

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• I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway and I would disapprove of it.

  Colm Toibin

  Determination, Writing, Mean

  "Writing is 'no fun', says Toíbín" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.

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• How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Independent, Careers, Simplicity

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.169, First Avenue Editions

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• A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Lds, Faithful, Inheritance

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• I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Oregon, Facts

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.51, Portobello Books

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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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• 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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• I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

  E. O. Wilson

  Christian, Teaching, Generosity

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• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413

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• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  Dada Vaswani

  Company You Keep, People, Type

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

  Mira Nair

  Humility, America, Traits

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