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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. ↗

— Athanasius

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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

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We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent. ↗

— Bob Livingston

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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. ↗

— George Meredith

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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. ↗

— William Penn

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We do not imitate, but are a model to others. ↗

— Pericles

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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

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