“ This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are. ”
- Jane Elliott- Copy
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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. ”
- Arnold Edinborough- Copy
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“ I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted. ”
- The Reverend Jesse Jackson- Copy
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“ We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. ”
- Jimmy Carter- Copy
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“ Canada has never been a melting pot, more like a tossed salad. ”
- Arnold Edinborough- Copy
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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. ”
- Marie Beynon Ray- Copy
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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. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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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 ﾂｭ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. ”
- Marie Beyon Ray- Copy
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“ We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. ”
- Jane Elliot- Copy
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“ For me it is beautiful that because there is a character in the film that speaks with a Spanish accent, the Spanish-speakers answer to that. The studios know that there is an audience there that shouldn't be misused. They are part of the American melting pot. ”
- Antonio Banderas- Copy
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“ Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, try the following experiment: Recall the face of the poorest and most helpless person you have ever seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be for any use to him or to her … Then you will find your doubts and your self melting away. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "America.". ”
- Edward Said- Copy
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“ One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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