association

is held together by mutual trust rather than by mutual interest. Our friends, marriages, etc, seldom profit us but they make us feel safe.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. H. L. Mencken

is the basic structure of the mind. It is an association machine and the way it works it to have associations to tables and, to dogs, and to cats, and to harvard professors.

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

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