"The old process of social assimilation used to……" — Peter York
"The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way."
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61 Quotes by Peter York
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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
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Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under…
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All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more…
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Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all…
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Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
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Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
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Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
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Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should…
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Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary…
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Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.
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London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and…
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One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting…
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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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