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«We have never been a melting pot. The fact is we are more like a tossed salad. We are green, some of us are oily and there's a little vinegar injected when you get up to Ottawa.»
Author: Arnold Edinborough
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«Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake...»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Living
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«We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.»
«Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.»
Author: John V. Lindsay
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«Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.»
«Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
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«I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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as it were, delirium, ecstasy, identifying, indescribable, melting, the system
«I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
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