#association

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#case #doctrine #general #ideas #mechanical

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #associations #case #complexity #delicacy

Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#escape #running-away #unhappiness #movies

There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#amalgamation #association #influence #nature #nature

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#beat #conscience #education #faster #heart

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#association #division #does #elements #life

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#amendment #association #countries #first #first amendment

When I compliment you, I compliment myself, because I am who I associate with. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#compliment #flattery #funny #wise #funny

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#association #award #ever #first #had

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#audiences #blame #folks #had #i