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Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation. — Niccolo Machiavelli
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation. — Elbert Hubbard
A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation… — George Bernard Shaw
Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or… — George Henry Lewes
Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to… — Brooks Atkinson
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation — William Shakespeare
...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small... — Muhammad Asad
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art… — Alexander Pope
Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really.… — Janine Benyus
I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my… — Mark Lawrence
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women — Naomi Wolf
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition. — John Wooden
Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you… — James Gunn
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery -… — Bruce Lee
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;… — Samuel Johnson
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The… — Samuel Johnson
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? — Rita Mae Brown
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt),… — June Jordan
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day… — Christopher Hitchens
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. — Bill Griffith
Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation… — Oscar Wilde
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature — Coco Chanel
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are… — Gabrielle Roth

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