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imitation
«By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.»
Author: Confucius
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Wisdom
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bitterer, bitterest, easiest, experience, imitation, imitations, learn, methods, noblest, reflection, second, third, Third Way, this method, three, wisdom
«Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Fashion
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barbarous, imitation, innovation
«I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
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Example
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imitation, imitations, lady, model, modeled, Model I, Model T, real thing, The Real Thing
«A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror, with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.»
«Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Originality
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imitation, insured, insures, insuring
«Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Art
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alongside, conquest, imitation, in truth, placed, supplement, supplements, thereof
«Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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Adaptability
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adaptability, assimilation, imitation, resistance