You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. Abbie Hoffman
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. Henri Frederic Amiel
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. Margery Allingham
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture. Al Yankovic
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities? Wynton Marsalis