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Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear. -- William Merritt Chase
The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education. -- Ilana Mercer
I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association. -- Howard Dean
Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards. -- Loretta Lynn
I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. -- George Clooney
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world. -- Xavier Becerra
Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association. -- Leland Stanford
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. -- Leo Tolstoy
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. -- Will Rogers
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. -- Thomas Paine
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. -- Jose Marti
Like associates with like. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association. -- Bob McDonnell
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. -- Franz Kafka
Association with women is the basis of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association. -- Peter Fonda
Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association. -- Terry Pratchett
To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic. -- Harvey Weinstein
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. -- W. Somerset Maugham
My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association. -- Janine Turner
The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song. -- Bradley Sands
The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps. -- Eddie Izzard
Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club. -- Melvin Belli
I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association) -- Ronald Reagan
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. -- Walter Scott
There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way. -- Barry Ritholtz
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters. -- Robert McChesney
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters. -- Robert McChesney
I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association. -- Herman Cain
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. -- Marguerite Young
I say the American Medical Association ought to get the hell off the golf course and answer this question ... -- Dave Barry
I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation. -- Kate Upton
We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us. -- Andy Barrie
In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors. -- Tina Fey
Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All. -- Richard Stallman
The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face. -- Linford Christie
Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent. -- Taufik Hidayat
The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert. -- David Letterman
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. -- Paul Getty
American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American. -- Morris Fishbein
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association. -- Penn Jillette
I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012. -- Rainey Qualley
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team. -- Bob Cousy
My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association. -- Gail Collins
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. -- Ovid
Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. -- Timothy Noah
A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon. -- Edward Abbey
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. -- Louise Slaughter
The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change. -- Taufik Hidayat
History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve. -- Charles Lindbergh
The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand. -- Paul Tagliabue
I was always involved in low level motor clubs, competitions and with the Vintage Auto Association, and I believe this really helped me on my way. -- Liz Halliday
Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders. -- Tim Holden
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. -- Charles Lamb
Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands. -- Timothy Noah
The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. -- Mark Cuban
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character. -- Michael Richards
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. -- Thomas Carlyle
Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries. -- Fritz Sauckel
American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may. -- Frederick Douglass
My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association. -- Ishmael Reed
In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license. -- Don Rickles
The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics. -- Richard Curtis
Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say. I'm not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy. -- Kevin Durant
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. -- Abraham Lincoln
The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles. -- Ernest Crawley
[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service. -- Woody Allen
Governor Kempthorne of Idaho, our chairman of the National Governors Association, is doing a great job bringing all of the nation's governors together to work as partners with the federal government. -- James Douglas
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. -- Hannah Arendt
A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established. -- Clayton Christensen
American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior. -- Peggy Orenstein
In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information. -- Joyce Banda
I'm a Buddhist and active in my Buddhist's Association, and I'm actually a National Young Women's representative for the organization, so I travel a lot helping young women who are practicing Buddhism. -- Vinessa Shaw
In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information." -- Joyce Banda
Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality. -- Huston Smith
If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network. -- Bernie Sanders
People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future. -- Haki R. Madhubuti
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized. -- Roger Bannister
The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association. -- Robert Genn
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States. -- Milton Friedman
Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills and eye-popping speed have attracted admirers all over the world. -- Don Yaeger
The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time. -- J. Carter Brown
President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association. -- Argus Hamilton
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells. -- Charlie Brooker
Association bring you into the larger world of other people and things. Not having that is a kind of prison, a prison of such a limited consciousness, of such a limited frame of reference and association. -- Hank Azaria
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else. -- Ted Rall
I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health. -- Lois Capps
My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association. -- Abby Wambach
According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens. -- Ann Coulter
You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs. -- Rush Limbaugh
If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing. -- Ruth Rendell
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007. -- Robert Darnton
I've become a representative of the American Diabetes Association, and then I just became national spokesman for the American Heart Association for a campaign called The Heart of Diabetes, which brings the awareness of cardio-vascular disease to diabetics. -- Stephen Furst
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain. -- Mark Twain
I'm ecstatic that I had the opportunity to play in the American Basketball Association. It was an opportunity to be part of something new and exciting and I think everyone who played would tell you the same thing. -- Mel Daniels
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. -- Spencer Bachus
You know, Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska, you know that. And she's a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association. So great, is what I'm thinking, another vice president that shoots a drinking buddy; just get ready. -- David Letterman
The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity. -- Patricia Ireland
To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research. -- Laura Wasser
Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and it's intentionally out of people's reach. -- Erik Naggum
While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations. -- Gail Devers
I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting. -- Tamara Tunie
We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world's peace, or we must be prepared for "? a continuation of war. -- H. G. Wells
I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. -- Jon Ronson
I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary. -- Kunal Nayyar
For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy. -- Andre Braugher
But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial. -- Aristide Briand
Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness. -- Andrew Weil
Motorcycle riding has been a passion of mine since my 20th birthday, and as a proud member of the American Motorcyclist Association and the Harley Owners Group, I can attest that responsible riding has many unique recreational benefits for millions of Americans. -- Tim Walberg
The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident? -- Jack Kevorkian
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. -- Charles Caleb Colton
There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here. -- Patrick Fugit
What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it. -- Susan B. Anthony
Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive. -- Ellen Goodman
I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row. -- Xeno Muller

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