It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the prope
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
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Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude.... Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
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The present era has no comparable referent in the past history of capitalism. We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodom and Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.
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They see our success and wonder if it can be replicated with some similar strategy. Certainly, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I once asked him, 'Who does the best imitation of you? And he said, 'Sammy Davis.'
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life...
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Attempts at imitation are the sincerest form of flattery,.. There's many of us sitting around today that are very flattered.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
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It's amazing to sit at a table with people who are idols of mine,.. I mean, God bless, Barry Hannah was at that table. I've been trying to do a Barry Hannah imitation in fiction forever. I can't do it.
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If these are not acts of war, they are a pretty good imitation.
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It was once believed that most animal behavior, from the food they ate to the places they slept, was based on instinct. This new discovery supports the growing view that animals like killer whales are very prone to learning by imitation, and that they are 'cultural' in nature.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.
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It's important to use pure, not imitation extracts. The flavor of pure extracts is intense and unmistakable. And if you can find an extract from the Dominican Republic or another country in the Caribbean, all the better.
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What remarkable, original and intelligent poems these are -- without an echo of imitation or lingering indebtedness. Above all, these are poems of felt intelligence -- a quality one associates with Richard Wilbur or John Donne and too few others. Richard St. John is among the select few.
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If it were to be claimed that intentional verse is not yet poetry, then I would equally have the right to claim that the most consummate, most differentiated sound poems are no longer poetry but a singular imitation of another art: music or declamation.
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We're beginning to catch a few good trout along the south shoreline. But it's still very slow fishing with various mullet imitation plugs and Old Bayside tails in white/chartreuse or shad colors.
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The decisions are comparatively simple, the possibilities for learning and imitation are unusually large, the compensation for coaches who make the decisions is extremely high, and the market for their services is intensely competitive. Despite these forces, the standard assumption that agents maximize simple objective functions fails to lead to reasonably accurate descriptions of behavior.
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Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost their image, or from a misguided idea about self-protection. In addition, most London shootings involve members of the black community and are often related to deprivation, gang rivalry or the illegal drug trade.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This is my idea, and when I get to Congress, I'd be very happy to cooperate with (Allard) on this.
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