What surrounds us is what is within us.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

— Khalil Gibran

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free…

— H. L. Mencken

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your…

— Jamie Johnson

I am a member of that small, little group that covers - I'm a member of the White House correspondents association. I go to…

— Donald Trump

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani

While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and…

— Jon Stewart

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political…

— Rudolf Rocker

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive…

— John Astin

Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research…

— Benedict Fitzgerald

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us…

— Samuel Johnson

The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.

— Linford Christie

The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these…

— M. C. Escher

Marriage is an association of two persons for the purpose of making one the beneficiary.

— Vikrant Parsai

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material…

— Edith Wharton