#imitation

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. ↗

— Fred Allen

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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #beings #human #human being #human beings

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ↗

— Aesop

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It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever? ↗

— Laurie Anderson

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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#already #america #anyone #attention #course

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. ↗

— Lionel Blue

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Men must know their limitations. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. ↗

— George Eliot

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Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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