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• Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

  Walter Lippmann

  Average, Genius, Machines

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• Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Conformity, Tradition

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• We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

  Oswald Mosley

  Ice Cream, Black, Spirit

  After his Labour Party meeting in Cambridge was broken-up by pro-Fascist undergraduates, 1927.

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• Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

  Eric Hoffer

  Independent, Play, People

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

  Gary Gygax

  Encouragement, Children, Suggestions

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• Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Path, Action

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.18, Race Point Publishing

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• An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Succeed, Imitator

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• 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 of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Real, Nurse

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• 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 three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.

  George Henry Lewes

  Lying, Writing, Successful

  George Henry Lewes (1875). “On Actors and the Art of Acting”, p.185, London Smith, Elder 1875.

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• 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 unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

  Brooks Atkinson

  People, Theatre, Sides

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• Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Proud, Manners

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.366, Wordsworth Editions

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• All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

  Muhammad Asad

  Creativity, People, Bounds

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.382, The Book Foundation

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• 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 consists in the imitation and study of nature.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Nature, Genius

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1787). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.265

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• 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. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

  Janine Benyus

  Innovation, Eras, Revolution

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

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• 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

  Fashion, Photograph, Seeing

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.105, Random House

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• 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 its recompense.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Virtue, Pleasure, Duty

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• The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

  John Wooden

  Eight, Law, Demonstration

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• 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 love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Self, Expression

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• 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 can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

  James Gunn

  Moving, Writing, Successful

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• Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

  Bruce Lee

  Discovery, Knowledge Learning, Ends

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• 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; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Ideas, Coherence

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.106

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• 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 adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Adoption, Ornaments

  Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.117

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• What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

  Rita Mae Brown

  Men, Looks, Ifs

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.147, Bantam

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• 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), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.

  June Jordan

  Suicide, America, Black

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Jobs, Ocean

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