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From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Alienation
Borders
Crossing
Poetry
Poets
Writers
Tension
Between
Beyond
Narratives
Always
Been
Exile
Encounters
Familiar
Beginnings
Wandering
Literature
Epic
Theme
Epic Poetry
Stranger
Novels
Based
Basic
Assimilation
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Constantin Stanislavski
Nothing
Prolonged
Mental
Attention
Talent
Period
Shortened
Assimilation
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
William McKinley
Benevolent
States
Mission
United
United States
Assimilation
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.
Nancy Pearcey
Character
Islam
National
Radical
Our
Bent
Willing
Welcomed
Always
National Character
America
Anyone
Radical Islam
Conquest
Assimilate
Assimilation
Rejects
The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.
Adam Schiff
Intelligence
Will
September
Prompt
Another
Essential
Avoid
September 11th
Assimilation
There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end up deliberately choosing the American things - hot dogs and apple pie - and ignoring the Chinese offerings.
Amy Tan
Myth
Melting
Melting Pot
Pot
Deliberately
Hot
Hot Dogs
Pie
Dogs
End
Up
America
American
Happens
Chinese
Ignoring
Choosing
Apple
Apple Pie
Things
Assimilation
I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.
David Baker
You
Innovation
People
Three
Think
Imitation
Those
Recognized
Point
Outside
Name
Always
Got
Move
Who
Ever
Assimilation
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.
David Harsanyi
God
People
Old
About
Throughout
Perils
Testament
His
False
Gods
Old Testament
Chosen
Assimilation
Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.
Edmund White
Gay
Marriage
Gay Marriage
Gays
Neighbours
Part
Another
Opposed
Targeted
Effort
Just
Straight
Resemble
Originally
Assimilation
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
Elliott Abrams
Good
Sense
Living
Society
Other
Some
Never
Observant
Comfortably
Fitting
American
Any
Apart
Assimilation
Jew
There's parts of Sydney totally indistinguishable from West London. It's exactly the same - the sense of capitulation, discouraging assimilation.
Gavin McInnes
Sense
Exactly
Exactly The Same
London
Totally
Indistinguishable
Parts
Discouraging
West
Same
Capitulation
Sydney
Assimilation
The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.
Joshua Cohen
Problem
Community
Back
Always
Ends
Fiction
Assimilation
Our assimilation efforts are based on building long-term relationships and value with our customers, and the success of these efforts is measured partly by our ability to stimulate customers to make a second purchase within 90 days.
Mindy Grossman
Success
Value
Building
Relationships
Our
Purchase
Ability
Long-Term
Days
Make
Partly
Within
Stimulate
Efforts
Customers
Measured
Based
Assimilation
Second
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.
Peter York
Money
Old
Community
Way
Those
London
Restoring
About
Colonies
Mainly
New
Identifying
Houses
Doing
Familiar
North
Process
Place
Social
Them
Landscape
Used
English
Thing
Assimilation
Buying
I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost perfect assimilation, so everything I eat is assimilated, not lost.
Raymond Burr
Day
Lost
Meal
Everything
Those
Has-Been
Eat
Only
Perfect
Almost
Overeat
Been
Body
Assimilated
Assimilation
But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
Samuel P. Huntington
Problem
Immigration
Conclusion
Came
May
While
Then
Really
Serious
Assimilation
Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.
Samuel P. Huntington
Immigration
Problems
Consider
Concern
Concerning
Mexican
Much
Really
Now
Assimilation
The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios.
Simon Schama
Life
Will
Other
Extremes
Those
Total
Exaggerated
About
Scenarios
Disappear
Between
Most
Gloomy
Hand
Very
Assimilation
Two
Jewish
Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
Taylor Sheridan
Failure
Water
Hell
Meditation
High
Someone
Purpose
Buddy
Also
Call
Loses
Rogue
Movie
Happens
Whether
Assimilation
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.
Trevor Dunn
Love
Music
Me
Made
Mark
Guess
Broader
Mad
Significant
See
Some
Poetry
His
As Far As
Literary
Manifesto
Communicating
Far
Much
Element
Assimilation
Bringing
Two
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