#imitate

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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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

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The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know? ↗

— Mick Ralphs

#day #doing #even #funny #house

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him. ↗

— John Milton

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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. ↗

— Confucius

#am #bad #correct #each #good

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

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