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Quotes About Association

Their garment? Have they but one? Ah, good your Worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each.
~ Mark Twain
Tom!" No answer. "Tom!
~ Mark Twain
the palace considerable; but the duke stayed huffy a good while
~ Mark Twain
Company would be a palpable improvement
~ Mark Twain
Go to heaven for the climate, go to hell for the company.
~ Mark Twain
have been editorially supplied for works that Clemens left untitled. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK
~ Mark Twain
Oh, no, Misto C –, I hadn't had no trouble. An' no joy!
~ Mark Twain
clear amber, old-ivory white, new-ivory white, fish-belly white—this latter the leprous complexion frequent with the Anglo-Saxon long resident in tropical climates.
~ Mark Twain
The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
~ Markus Zusak
It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them
~ Markus Zusak
Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint.
~ Markus Zusak
One thing I've noticed about the Germans: They seem very fond of pigs.
~ Markus Zusak
Adam has angels like a dog has fleas. He came here with them, and the more time you spend around him, the more likely you are to get them yourself.
~ Martha Beck
What was Richard? He was a revenger, in what was probably intended to be a comedy.
~ Martin Amis
The trend is your friend.
~ Martin Zweig
The younger we are, the more each individual object represents for us the whole class to which it belongs.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
In spouse, I mostly hear "S.mouse," the name of Chris Lilley's blackface teenage rapper in Angry Boys. And
~ Augusten Burroughs
You could tell them why they should hire you so very much better than I could. But they won't listen to you and they'll listen to me. Because I'm the middleman. The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line--it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter. Such is the psychology of a pretzel.
~ Ayn Rand
All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shape, but always in cost.
~ Ayn Rand
every part contained a memory of the other parts it was directly attached to.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
wasn't the butler who looked out but Marcus Cynster.
~ Stephanie Laurens
Nearly) all thinking is associative. While it's easy to spot the obvious metaphorical associations ("iceberg"), associations go all the way down to conceptual ideas (up is good) to more fundamental associations that began perhaps in the womb with spatial orientation.
~ Stephen Anderson
Associations vary in explicitness from concepts highly embedded in our thought processes (simple aesthetic associations) to overt analogies and visual metaphors.
~ Stephen Anderson
The human mind ... operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain.
~ Stephen Anderson