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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Imitating, Imitation Of Life

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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• Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

  Seneca the Younger

  Well Said, Wells, Mines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

  Alan Turing

  People, Feel Good, Satisfaction

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• Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

  Aesop

  Real, Men, Originality

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.81, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In literature imitations do not imitate.

  Mark Twain

  Literature

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.246, Courier Corporation

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• I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Real

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

  Marquis de Sade

  Character, Men, Sensitive Man

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Brother, Poverty

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• No one ever became great by imitation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Greatness

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• The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Artist, Men, Names

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.51, City Lights Books

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• In imitation is a bit suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Bits

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• Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Greatness, Mediocrity, Pay

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• Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

  Madame de Stael

  Two, Diversity, Mind

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• Discipling involves instruction and imitation.

  Mark Dever

  Instruction

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• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Greatness, Mediocrity, Pay

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stealing Things, Immature, Different

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

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• An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

  Henry Ford

  Successful, Hands, May

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Imitator

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• I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.

  Ian Mcewan

  Intelligent, Temptation, Shadow

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• Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime, it is criminal. If you try to become a Buddha, you may look like Buddha, you may walk like him, you may talk like him, but you will miss. You will miss all that life was ready to deliver to you. Buddha happens only once.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Unique, Destiny

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• Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

  Alexandre Vinet

  Way, Causes, Slave

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• The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

  Leland Ryken

  Art, Real, Greek

  Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.60, Shaw Books

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• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.

  Max Nordau

  Book, Echoes, Expression

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