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imitations
«It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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Originality
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imitation, imitations, originality
«It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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blocks, convictions, elusive, gleaming, gleams, imitations, inertia, insight, intuition, involuntary, irrational, known as, panic, physiological, prejudices, psychological, rationalize, rationalized, structures, stumbling, sudden, thought process, verbal
«Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
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applaud, applauding, applauds, hiss, hissed, hisses, imitation, imitations, real thing, The Real Thing
«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
«Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.»
Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers
(Author, Columnist, Psychologist)
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flatteries, flattery, imitation, imitations, sincerest
«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
«Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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borrowed, borrows, imitation, imitations, judicious, original, originality, originals, writers