#imitate

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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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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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

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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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Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad. ↗