Quotes About Association

Hang out with people who are better than you and you cannot help but improve." Pabrai acts on this advice to a degree that would horrify many people. "When I meet someone for the first time, I evaluate them afterwards and say, 'Will it make me better or worse to have a relationship with this person?'" If the answer is worse, he says, "I'll cut him out.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Smells are the time machines of human perception. A scent can take you instantly back to a particular place and time.

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I'm a born librarian with a sex drive

Secretly, many punks were in love with Genesis and Pink Floyd, but to say that in an interview would have been the end of a bright career. And

Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing. It's whom you were with, how old you were, and what was happening that day.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

Prediction – even perfect, universal prediction – is simply no substitute for explanation.

You perceive and remember that to which you can relate. When you observe something aberrant, your tendency is to build a metaphor to explain what you didn't understand.

The more repressed the mortal, The dirtier the mind.

If peasants weren't so lazy they could afford proper attire.

se halla en Vancouver[2], en el estado de Washington.

Then you ask: what, within this cosmos, is the opposite of a vampire? The answer is obvious. The opposite of a vampire is a werewolf.

The reader might be asking: But what does all this have to do with the origins of money? The answer is, surprisingly: everything.

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

the neoliberal turn is in some way and to some degree associated with the restoration or reconstruction of the power of economic elites.

Everything is connected to everything else, and nothing is without consequence

All beliefs about matters of fact or real existence are derived merely from something that is present to the memory or senses, and a customary association of that with some other thing.

When we have found a resemblance [FN 2.] among several objects, that often occur to us, we apply the same name to all of them, whatever differences we may observe in the degrees of their quantity and quality, and whatever other differences may appear among them. After we have acquired a custom of this kind, the hearing of that name revives the idea of one of these objects, and makes the imagination conceive it with all its particular circumstances and proportions.

Secondly, we have several instances of habits, which may be revived by one single word; as when a person, who has by rote any periods of a discourse, or any number of verses, will be put in remembrance of the whole, which he is at a loss to recollect, by that single word or expression, with which they begin.

The face of the earth is continually changing, by the encrease of small kingdoms into great empires, by the dissolution of great empires into smaller kingdoms, by the planting of colonies, by the migration of tribes. Is there any thing discoverable in all these events, but force and violence? Where is the mutual agreement or voluntary association so much talked of?

Pope Pius XII was certainly not "Hitler's pope," as John Cornwell's intentionally provocative book title would have it.

Admittedly, some people experience synaesthesia, in which they do associate a particular colour or sensation with particular numbers.