"In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move……" — Jonathan Raban

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
• Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture.… — Thomas Kuhn
• Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has… — Justin Martyr
• If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can… — Allan W. Eckert
• Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. — Constantin Stanislavski
• The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. — William McKinley
• 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
• Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. — Jean Piaget
• The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each… — Randolph Bourne
• Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and… — William McKinley
• 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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