Quotes About Association

Hatfield and her colleagues sum up emotional contagion research with an Arabic proverb: "A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot.

Countries with hot climates suffer higher murder rates and more political violence; more violent crimes occur in hot years;

He was especially known for treating skin afflictions, often with an application of pork fat, and as a result, he had come to be associated with such skin diseases as eczema and the eponymous Saint Anthony's fire.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

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we model the behavior of the people we spend our days with. Fill your life with exceptionally excellent, enterprising, healthy, positive, ethical and sincerely loving people. And over time, you'll exemplify these lofty traits. Allow dream stealers, energy thieves and enthusiasm bandits into your Tight Bubble of Total Focus and please know you're sure to become like them.

Your thoughts are shaped by the people you associate with, by the books you read, by the words you speak and by your daily physical surroundings.

paganism was "no more than a spongy mass of tolerance and tradition."3

Fast Food Rule. Wanna know what the summer's blockbuster is going to be? See who McDonald's does the marketing tie-in with. Wanna know what blockbuster will do disappointing business? See who Burger King ties in with.

calling out, "Trog! Trog!" As if Trog knew the

Every subject has its canonical history, usually sold to beginners as a sequence of revolutionary vignettes, each associated with a 'pioneer'.

Burke saw society as an association of the dead, the living and the unborn. Its binding principle is not contract, but something more akin to love. Society is a shared inheritance for the sake of which we learn to circumscribe our demands, to see our own place in things as part of a continuous chain of giving and receiving, and to recognize that the good things we inherit are not ours to spoil.

all the respects that I have so far mentioned, conversation fits the bill of a free association which is subservient to no purpose but itself, and which is destroyed by the bossiness and urgencies of the planner, the utopian and the rationalist. On the other hand, conversations have to be among few participants if they are to dispense with some kind of central discipline or with accepted procedures and conventions. As

Metaphors make connections with are not contained in the fabric of reality but created by our own associative powers. The important question about a metaphor is not what property it stands for, but what experience it suggests.

Burke saw society as an association of the dead, the living and the unborn. It's binding principle is not contract, but something more akin to love. Society is a shared inheritance for the sake of which we learn to circumscribe our demands, to see our own place in things as part of a continuous chain of giving and recieving, and to recognize that the good things we inherit our not ours to spoil.

When the Communist Party took over Eastern Europe, its first work was to destroy the civil associations that it did not control.

T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.

The text does not gloss the images, which do not illustrate the text.

The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.

Except for Florida, every southern state joined in the program.

By one account, a dispute arose as to whether John would pay rent at the new house.

As Rockefeller pondered this, the triumph of Flexner's serum tipped the scales

Had he not been unfairly implicated, Rockefeller might have enjoyed the rebuke delivered to Rogers.

In reality, he was fully prepared to deal with a strong producers' cartel so long as they capped production.