#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

#fun #ideas #limitations #physical #play

All art is but imitation of nature. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#imitation #nature

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

— Anna Howard Shaw

#came #day #every #hour #life

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#imitation #interesting #more #nature

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

— Barbra Streisand

#i #just #limitations #my own #own

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

— Jonathan Swift

#diversion #fighting #imitation #men #most

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#around #bit #end #english #favor

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists. ↗

— John Yoo

#also #asking #geneva #limitations #make

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. ↗

— Bill Griffith

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