Quotes About Integration

Hidup itu ialah kelancaran hubungan diri dengan luar diri.

To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible

My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful.

oscillating among the different possibilities allows us time to come to new and different ways of integrating who we were then with who we are now and who we are becoming. When this self-exploration and self-testing ends prematurely—either because we are not able to tolerate the contradictions or because we are unable to assimilate new information about ourselves—we risk either letting go of the past too rapidly or holding on to it too rigidly.

all colors of people mingle in the souks and squares. But they do not merge.

The past, like a severed limb, tried to fix itself onto the body of the present.

You'll know you're really one of us when you get your name

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

She was the missing ingredient they needed. The hint of nutmeg. Connie

The costs of not being integrated correctly (and I am using corrections here deliberately) are the veiled threats and often realities of institutionalization or returning to segregated congregate living (for those who were deinstitutionalized). There is always the shadow of the adverse consequences if one does not conform or comply—what I called elsewhere the institution yet to come.46 The specter of incarceration is inherent, as a promise or threat, in mechanisms of liberal inclusion.

I was feeling what I should be feeling, as if for once all the sharp awkward fragments of my life suddenly fell into their proper slots.

Well that's a system too but you don't think about it very much because of how flawlessly it works for you.

and only by assimilating into their community would they succeed.

Take care of the components, ad the sum of their parts unfolds as if by magic.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

What did you do with memories, feelings, needs, that didn't belong anywhere?

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

Our aim is that all those who come here to live will participate fully in British society and that British society will be confident enough to allow diversity (as it always has) without losing its central values.

A proud and healthy society does not equivocate when it comes to stating clearly and unequivocally what it expects of its prospective immigrants. It is for immigrants to adapt to the host nation's values and never the other way around.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.