#imitation

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. ↗

— George Santayana

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Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

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All art is but imitation of nature. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood. ↗

— Tom Selleck

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I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

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On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

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Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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