Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain. — E. M. Forster 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
“Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.” — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
“When an immigrant speaks of feeling uncomfortable just know, you are in the presence of man who knows what the sting of… — Hannah V. Sawyerr 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
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under… — Norman Manea Copy Share Image
More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent… — John Shadegg Copy Share Image
There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I would like to remind you that both assimilation and integration apply to the working classes in the nineteenth century, at least… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“[I]nclusion, not assimilation, should be the key concept in seeking, ever seeking, a more perfect national union. Our own history has shown… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry… — Chang-Rae Lee 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
Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Debating the concept of race does not mean that I in any way regard this as a quarrel between neighbors over where… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
“I realised with a prickle of discomfort why he bothered me: it was not so much that I resented the hearty backslapping… — S. J. Parris (Heresy: An Historical Thriller Copy Share Image
“Julia, is everything all right?” her father said in a raspy voice. “It’s three in the morning, m’ija.” “I’m sorry. I have… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
We've admitted 59 million immigrants to the United States between 1965 and 2015. Many of these arrivals have greatly enriched our country.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel… — Mark Krikorian 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
Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“One couple described the effects as being, “dated hard, married quick, and then ignored.” They got into church alright, but the church… — Sue Mallory Copy Share Image
Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin… — Allan W. Eckert Copy Share Image