"Books have to be read (worse luck it……" — E. M. Forster
"Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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More Assimilation Quotes
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We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land…
— Rand Paul
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has…
— Justin Martyr
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If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can…
— Allan W. Eckert
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
— Constantin Stanislavski
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
— William McKinley
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Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy,…
— Zack de la Rocha
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
— Jean Piaget
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The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each…
— Randolph Bourne
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Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and…
— William McKinley
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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