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"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." »Emo Phillips
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"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." »Unknown
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"The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being." »Bette Davis, "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.
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"All art is an imitation of nature." »Seneca
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"imitation is suicide." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"All art is but imitation of nature." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 6.
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"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"imitation is the sincerest of flattery." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. imitation is suicide." »Marva Collins
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"Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
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"imitation is the sincerest form of television." »Fred Allen
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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." »Herman Melville
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"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." »Eric Hoffer
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"Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing." »Aesop
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"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others." »Greville
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." »Samuel Johnson
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." »Joyce
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"In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do." »Anthony Sampson
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"Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals." »Richard F. Lovelace
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"imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves." »Vinet
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." »Confucius
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest." »Confucius
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"Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in imitation is universal." »Aristotle
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"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition." »Israel Zangwill
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"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives." »Edmund Burke
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"The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition." »Israel Zangwill
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"For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves." »Francis Bacon
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