Association Quotes - Page 20

• The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Motorcycle, Definitions

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, was nominated by President Bush in 2003 and plans to start the job any day now. ... Prior to heading FEMA, Brown spent the 90's as a commissioner -- this is true -- of the International Arabian Horse Association. I guess he stands out because most Bush appointees are beholden to Arabian people.

  Jon Stewart

  Horse, Jobs, People

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• There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed.

  John Astin

  Character, Roles, Might

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• Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research laboratories which do not conform to the viewpoint of medical associations.

  Benedict Fitzgerald

  Country, Dark, Age

  "Nerve Regeneration, Lithium, Alzheimer’s Protection & the War on Medical Freedom". Moneychanger interview, the-moneychanger.com. April 2015.

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• The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association for Mental Health (NAMH), formed in 1944, and initially run by the mentally unstable Montagu Norman, previously of the Bank of England. The group originally met at Norman's London home, where he and Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht had met in the 1930s to arrange financing for Hitler.

  Jim Keith

  Running, Home, Eugenics

  Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.16, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

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• There is no association richer than the companionship of husband and wife.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Husband, Wife, Companionship

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• I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row.

  Xeno Muller

  School, Hands, France

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• Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it: "The Universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper is a Lord's supper, every work a fulfillment of the divine task, every joy a joy in God. In all preliminary concerns, ultimate concern is present, consecrating them."

  Paul Tillich

  Joy, Tasks, Lord's Supper

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• Something in the movement of fingers on the keyboard enhances thought. Fingers pull your thoughts forward. Fingers are in some way an extension of your brain, with a lot of cortex associations at their trigger. Get them going!

  Josip Novakovich

  Brain, Keyboards, Way

  Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.6, Writer's Digest Books

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• There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Law, Parent

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Doe, Compromise

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.76, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

  Brian Eno

  Writing, What Matters, Atmosphere

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• Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Notebook, Writing, Angel

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• Well for everyone to make a study of astrology for, as indicated, while many individuals have set about to prove the astrological aspects and astrological survey enable one to determine future as well as the past conditions, these are well to the point where the individual understands that these act upon individuals because of their sojourn or correlation of their associations with the environs through which these are shown - see? Rather than the star directing the life, the life of the individual directs the courses of the stars, see?

  Edgar Cayce

  Stars, Past, Astrology

  "Planetary Influences & Sojourns".

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• These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

  William J. Clinton

  People, Religion, Identity

  "My vision for peace" by Bill Clinton, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2002.

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• Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations, and democracy of that kind should be the foundational elements of a more general free society.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Community, Democracy

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• Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fate, Exercise, Men

  The Rambler, No 85, January 8, 1751.

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• Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Men, Order

  Noam Chomsky (2003). “For Reasons Of State”, p.404, Penguin Books India

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• No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Attitude, Skills

  Myles Munroe (2007). “Keys for Leadership”, p.12, Whitaker House

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• I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with.

  Michele Bachmann

  Strong, Thinking, Average

  "Hardball Gone Mad: Congresswoman Compared to Nazi for Insisting Media Cover Obama-Ayers Connection". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.newsbusters.org. October 21, 2008.

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• I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fashion, People, Roles

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• The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

  Eli Roth

  People, Video, Use

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• Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Art, Organization, People

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• When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Strong, Perfect, Negative

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