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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will. ↗

— Allan Sherman

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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

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Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. ↗

— Woody Allen

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. ↗

— Athanasius

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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. ↗

— Judith Butler

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No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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