#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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I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. ↗

— Martha Graham

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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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It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

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

— Ernst Fischer

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I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

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Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? ↗

— Stendhal

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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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