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Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: America Associations Currency Elizabeth Etiquette Immediate More North North America Ontario Polite Queen Reassuring Regime Say Somewhat States Street Thought Toronto United United States Version Welfare

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We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Association Associations Cats Dogs Harvard Know Machine Mind Professors Tables Things Way Works You

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Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Alternative Associations Descriptions Different Emotions Evoke Reality Same

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Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

~David Chalmers

Topics: Advocate Associations Boil Build Core Down Early Fundamental Imagine Might Our Point Principles Result Sort Stages Still Them Theories Things Toward Try Up Us

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I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.

~David Furnish

Topics: Associations Brought Came Child Children Comfort Family Happy Life Loving Marriage Me My Life Parents Positive Positive Things Things Wanted Were Which I Came

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When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.

~David Milch

Topics: Associations Dad Experiences Formative Kid Like Many Me Out Race Take Track Used

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Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Associations Before Carries Childhood Deepest Emotions Everything Family Few Friends Less Likelihood Meaning Often Our Rooted Said Say Where Words You

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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Associations Complexity Consists Delicacy Evolution Formation Increase Intellectual Number Permanence Race Speed

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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

Topics: Animal Associations Case Complexity Delicacy Formation Growth Man Number Permanence Possible Speed

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The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

~Eli Roth

Topics: Associations Because Best Crap Horror Movies Now People Thrillers Use Word You

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