"So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions."
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"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
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"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."
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"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."
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"Like associates with like."
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"The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women."
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"I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions."
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"Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships."
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"They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority."
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"Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association."
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"An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations."
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"I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us."
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"The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place."
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"A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed."
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"In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."
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"I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association."
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"Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings."
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"I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association."
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"A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it."
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"Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association."
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