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Quotes About Association

Chance I is completely impersonal; you can't influence it. Chance II favors those who have a persistent curiosity about many things coupled with an energetic willingness to experiment and explore. Chance III favors those who have a sufficient background of sound knowledge plus special abilities in observing, remembering, recalling, and quickly forming significant new associations. Chance IV favors those with distinctive, if not eccentric hobbies, personal lifestyles, and motor behaviors.
~ James H. Austin
Or in gamer terms, Ares had been a giant, douchey Leeroy Jenkins.
~ James Hunter
Only an Englishman of Morgan's class could call a queer suicide with overtones of financial wrongdoing a "muddle".
~ James Lear
I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
~ James Lovelock
humanitarian slave regime
~ James M. McPherson
as tools of persuasion. He would
~ James Neff
the Mount than the people in general were allowed to do,
~ James Orr
So close are knowledge and property that they are often thought to be continuous. Those who are entitled to knowledge feel they should be granted property as well, and those who are entitled to property believe a certain knowledge goes with it. Scholars demand higher salaries for their publishable successes; industrialists sit on university boards.
~ James P. Carse
This does not mean that infinite players are politically disengaged; it means rather that they are political without having a politics, a paradoxical position easily misinterpreted. To have a politics is to have a set of rules by which one attempts to reach a desired end; to be political—in the sense meant here—is to recast rules in the attempt to eliminate all societal ends, that is, to maintain the essential fluidity of human association.
~ James P. Carse
Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation.
~ James Purdy
To the future young folks of Lowenwood: I wish you all love, hope, happiness, And a long and healthful life. May your understanding of mankind Be broadened through your association with And, I am sure, your love of Lowenwood.
~ James R. Lowenstine
identified this visitor as Doane, the man who had
~ James Roberts
Delia Bacon never found corroborative evidence for her theory
~ James Shapiro
But if familiarity breeds contempt, it also fosters a bond—
~ James St. James
He was one of those language teachers who rely heavily on mnemonics. ("Agathon. Do you know how I remember that word? 'Agatha Christie writes good mysteries.' Ã¢â'¬Â) Henry's look of contempt was indescribable. The rest of us were silent and humiliated
~ Donna Tartt
rain—was grappling for her wallet. "Maybe
~ Donna Tartt
Somewhere, Bunny had heard that John Donne had been acquainted with Izaak Walton, and in some dim corridor of his mind this friendship grew larger and larger, until in his mind the two men were practically interchangeable.
~ Donna Tartt
If they do, I certainly want to have an excuse for having been here. And pick up that match," he said sourly to Francis
~ Donna Tartt
That's odd,' said Henry. 'The first thing I thought of when I tasted that coffee was you.
~ Donna Tartt
In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts. Mr. MacNatt was an auto-parts salesman; Mrs. MacNatt was shaped like a pigeon and sold Avon. They had got my parents doing things like taking bus trips to factory outlets and playing a dice game called "bunko" and hanging around the piano bar at the Ramada Inn.
~ Donna Tartt
If Roosevelt were given another chance to lead the country, he intended to make the Republican Party once more the progressive party of Abraham Lincoln, to restore "the fellow feeling, mutual respect, the sense of common duties and common interests which arise when men take the trouble to understand one another, and to associate for a common object.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air.
~ Doris Lessing
I have a suggestion in that case,' said Lymond. 'You two have the orgy, and I'll keep the drinker's headache.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Patriotism is a fine hothouse for maggots.
~ Dorothy Dunnett