Definition of Association
Association
The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.
Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.
Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.
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Association Quotations
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
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
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka
Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
Mikhail Bakunin
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Ovid
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
Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.
Herman Cain
Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
Loretta Lynn
Association Translations
association in Afrikaans is vereniging
association in Dutch is bond, genootschap, associatie
association in French is association
association in German is Vereinigung, Vorstellung
association in Italian is fasciatura
association in Latin is congressus
association in Norwegian is forening
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