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• Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

  Tara Fela-Durotoye

  Father, Real, Role Models

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• Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

  Ken Danby

  Artist, Development, Path

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• Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

  Alan Cohen

  Leadership, Motivation, Merit

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• Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.

  Janine Benyus

  Genius, Conscious, Biomimicry

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Self, Community, Waste

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 5 (1899)

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• True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

  Hosea Ballou

  Charity, Spontaneous, Offspring

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• Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Appreciation, Passion, Role Models

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• Tremendous indeed is the occult influence of sex-love upon the evolution of organic life. Love and glory, fidelity, emulation, resolution, beauty, strength, and courage are directly inspired by sex-passions.

  Arthur Desmond

  Sex, Passion, Love Life

  "Might is Right". Book by Ragnar Redbeard, Chapter 6: Love, and Women, and War, 6, 1890.

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• Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Horse, Ambition

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• Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

  Horace Mann

  Students, Praise, Seeds

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• Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Friendship, Grief, Perfect

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• Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Envy, Victory, Spy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.436

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• If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Men, Virtue

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.532

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• The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the protection it affords against foreign power, the virtue it inculcates, the just emulation of the distinction it confers on nations foremost in it; in short, its identification with power, morals, order and happiness (which merits to it premiums of encouragement rather than repressive taxes), are considerations [that should] always [be] present and [bear] with their just weight.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Encouragement, Order, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1990). “Public and private papers”, Vintage Books

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• When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

  Hannah More

  Vanity, Contentment, Looks

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• My heart laments that virtue cannot live
  Out of the teeth of emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Envy, Teeth

  William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.101

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• Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Liberty, Example, Doe

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• Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Example, Doe

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• A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Government, People

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, World, Human Nature

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority and other concepts essential to the establishment of a political society. They saw in Scripture political and legal models - such as republicanism, separation of powers, and due process of law - that they believed enjoyed divine favor and were worthy of emulation in their polities.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Order, Law, Government

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership

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• Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Home, Numbers

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

  Samuel Johnson

  School, Mind, Radiation

  James Boswell, Alexander Napier, Richard Duppa, Robina Napier, Samuel Johnson (1884). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with the journal of a tour to the Hebrides: James Boswell”

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