The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family” — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works,… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
“An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate information. A great teacher teaches how to… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how… — Donald Curtis Copy Share Image
The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation that it was almost a case of multiple personalities.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th. — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
“The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
