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More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them. -- John Shadegg
Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that. -- Mark Krikorian
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. -- William McKinley
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. -- E. L. Doctorow
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. -- Jean Piaget
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. -- Constantin Stanislavski
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. -- Heinrich Heine
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods. -- David Harsanyi
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
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
Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between. -- Simon Schama
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
Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. -- Bobby Jindal
We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. -- Swami Vivekananda
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what. -- Laura Antoniou
Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension. -- Swami Vivekananda
To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility. -- Donald Trump
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. -- Augustus William Hare
I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down. -- Steve King
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies. -- Allan W. Eckert
There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America. -- Niger Innis
Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that. -- Harry Hay
Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one. -- Watchman Nee
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. -- E. M. Forster
Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word of prayer, that food which by assimilation nourishes our flesh and blood, is the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus. -- Justin Martyr
Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built. -- Max Heindel
... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar inhabits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country. -- Frances Wright
We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows. -- Rand Paul
Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know. -- Donald Curtis
The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th. -- Adam Schiff
Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation. -- Samuel P. Huntington
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
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
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
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
It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens. -- Emanuel Celler
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
I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation. -- Chaz Bono
The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
We must insist on assimilation - immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work. -- Bobby Jindal
More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation. -- Martin Jacques
I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone. -- Chang-Rae Lee
I'm too good for assimilation. -- Kola Boof
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation -- Mahatma Gandhi
The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community. -- Joshua Cohen
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. -- Jane Addams
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. -- Idries Shah
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. -- Karl Marx
The American people love immigration. They just want it obeyed. They want the laws obeyed. They want there to be assimilation. -- Rush Limbaugh
Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth. -- Anodea Judith
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes. -- Jonathan Raban
The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Blend all ingredients. Drink with probiotic straws to maximize the benefits of a healthy diet and support normal absorption and assimilation of nutrients in the gut. -- Mehmet Oz
Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight -- Thomas Kuhn
There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation. -- Maximus the Confessor
Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams. -- Zack de la Rocha
Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know. -- Kenneth Arrow
Tech is not looking for inclusion per se, but they're looking for assimilation. They're looking for Blacks and Latinos and women, but they are looking for these groups as versions of themselves. -- Kathryn Finney
No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately. -- Kimberly Guilfoyle
With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders' of cultures, presenting assimilation as an advancement or promotion, dissolved. -- Zygmunt Bauman

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