Joel Grey

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.

American Actor

Art Alexakis

Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.

American Musician

Daryl Gates

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

American Public Servant

Henry Mayhew

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

English Journalist

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

French Philosopher

Rudolf Steiner

We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.

Austrian Philosopher

Linda Sarsour

Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and please any other people and authority.

American Activist

Ross Douthat

When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.

American Author

Radhanath Swami

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

American Clergyman

E. L. Doctorow

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Use when someone needs to grasp a concept completely, not just memorize it.

Full Understanding

It implies an active, deliberate effort to deeply understand information.

Active Process

Different from 'learn.' It's about incorporating new info into existing knowledge.

Not Just Learning

Often used in social contexts referring to blending into cultural or societal norms.

Cultural Integration

Implies a gradual adaptation, not instant change, when joining a new group or society.

Gradual Process

Can have positive (belonging) or negative (losing identity) connotations based on context.

Positive or Negative

Specifically means how organisms incorporate substances for growth or energy.

Biological Integration

Used in a technical or scientific setting. Not common in everyday language.

Scientific Context

Refers to a physical and chemical bodily process, not just mental or social.

Physical Process

 what we're good at, what we're terrible at. And if we don't spend time paying attention to that and assimilating that learning and applying it to the rest of our lives, it's all for nothing. Every day, every week, every month of every year I spend some time just reflecting on what went right, what went wrong, and what do I want to repeat, what can I apply more to my life.

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 like that I don't think you guys a lot of you realize how appreciate it it often is by a lot of the presenters yes I certainly appreciate its I don't know a lot of the others do when we speak see a lot of the guys you know everyone kind of really appreciates being helped out from time to time as much as we try and kind of gain knowledge and assimilate

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 who assimilated into local cultures, though many of their names still mark the map. This was the end of the Classical Period and the beginning of what many call the Dark Ages. Although Roman culture was never fully lost, its influence declined and new art styles arose

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 alphabets different letters of the alphabet but never my full name that makes an impact on you in many cases I contemplate it should I change my name should I abbreviate it to make it more convenient or to assimilate but even

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 a history of conquest, occupation, absorption, assimilation and so on, led to the process by which, over time, this notion of the Han emerged -- of course, nurtured by a growing and very powerful sense of cultural identity.

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 dealing with the impact of their assimilation, and there have only been a handful of studies that follow transracial adoptees over a lifetime. I know that people around me could not understand my adoption grief.

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 and punished for speaking their languages. Assimilation was a complement to genocide. Seven thousand languages are alive today, but few are recognized by their own governments or supported online.

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 Something you didn't expect that caps what you did expect. Then there's the return. You've got to have a gradual return to the ordinary world, so you have time to assimilate what you've learned.

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 assimilate to prison life in order to fit in he's deliberately chosen to flaunt his unique identity despite the potential trouble that identity brings in this particular prison you can't

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 When nativists said that immigrants weren't useful, their allies said yes, they are. When nativists accused immigrants of being others, their allies promised that they would assimilate.

Assimilate