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• It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Education, Inspirational

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Solitude, Imitation, Opinion, Ignorance, Philosophy

• We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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  Tags in Imitation, Forfeit

• Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

  Peyton Manning

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• Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Imitation, Television

• Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Imitation

• My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Imitation

• He imitated me so well that I couldn’t stand myself any longer.

  Georges Pompidou

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Imitation

• The worst acting is about imitation.

  Paul Guilfoyle

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  Tags in Acting, Imitation

• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  Samuel Johnson

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• No man was ever great by imitation.

  Samuel Johnson

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  Rudeness is the weak person’s imitation of strength.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Imitation, Strength

• All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

  George Henry Lewes

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  Tags in Literature, Imitation

• To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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  Tags in Imitation, Forms

• The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

  Samuel George Morton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imitation
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  The Cube is an imitation of life itself – or even an improvement on life.

  Erno Rubik

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Cube, Imitation

• The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

  Charles Olson

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  Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

  Pablo Picasso

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  Tags in Plagiarism, Imitation, Copy

• I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can’t name you 20 people outside those we’ve already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

  David Baker

  Tags in Imitation, Recognized, Assimilation, Innovation

• Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Imitation