Assimilation Quotes - Page 2

• Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

  Donald Curtis

  Faith, Air, Doe

  DONALD CURTIS (1963). “DAILY POWER for JOYFUL LIVING”

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• We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Opportunity, Hiding In The Shadows

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• Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

  David Harsanyi

  People, Old Testament, Peril

  "How Liberalism Destroyed the American Jew" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 10, 2013.

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• Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

  Heinrich Heine

  Fiction, Genius, Literature

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• If the immigrant is responsible for assimilation of the country, and some of these people are in fact are born there. But if you find it unwelcoming to your own barbaric notions of equality, that is not on the country, that is on you. If you leave a horrible place, please leave your horrible practices behind.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Practice, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department.

  Duncan Campbell Scott

  Native American, Poetry, Body

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• Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Art, Important, Fifth Avenue

  International Herald Tribune, October 01, 1990.

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• The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, Real, Essence

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

  Alain de Botton

  Drinking, Self, Drawing

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• I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down.

  Steve King

  Opinion, Prepared, I Can

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• The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering and assimilating new technology into the workplace, we must look to the way humans act and react. In the last 20 years, US industry has invested more than $1 trillion in technology, but has realised little improvement in the efficiency of its knowledge workers ­ and virtually none in their effectiveness. If we could solve the problems of the assimilation of new technology, the potential would be enormous.

  John Seely Brown

  Successful, Technology, Effectiveness

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• More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

  John Shadegg

  Home, United States, Citizens

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• I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.

  Mark Steyn

  Believe, Law, Support

  "Battered Westerner Syndrome inflicted by myopic Muslim defenders" by Mark Steyn, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 23, 2002.

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• Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

  Karl Marx

  Reality, Expression, Form

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, 1857-1858.

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• We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Character, Men, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.95, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.

  Augustus William Hare

  Self, Coal, Pits

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.7

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• I'm too good for assimilation.

  Kola Boof

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• If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.

  Allan W. Eckert

  Philosophy, Writing, Ideas

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• If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Daughter, Equality, Class

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• Jewish communities in the diaspora are very important to Israel and we are open to a dialogue with them. It is bitter for us to see the process of assimilation, the mixing of Jewish and non-Jewish. But when it comes to the relations of state and religions, the basics have not changed since Rabin's times.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Israel, Community, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

  Leonard Cohen

  Houston, Singers, Might

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• We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.

  John Leguizamo

  Shoes, America, Culture

  The New York Times, July 14, 1991.

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• With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders' of cultures, presenting assimilation as an advancement or promotion, dissolved.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Order, Advancement, Culture

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices from the various religions and their application to one's own inner life and development.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Spiritual, Religious, Practice

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• Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into our society and culture. So these tendencies are fairly universal. The problem is what if they get out of hand and become the dominant factor in a society, which can only lead to the oppression of minorities or even to war with neighboring societies with differing cultures. That's why it seems to me it's important to try to keep these tendencies toward extremism under control.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Attitude, War, Taken

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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