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It’s proving capable of capturing the public’s imitation and shaping their baseline judgment about how bad things are, it acts as a crystallizing symbol for broader institutions not functioning. – Jonathan Simon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These snacks are far from a slice of pizza. They're typically filled with sodium, fat, lots of additives for preservation, such as nitrates and phosphates and even imitation cheese, i recommend having a slice of real, thin crust pizza if you're craving pizza. – Kaleigh McMordie	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, we have two books that are giving to charities that are both about bunnies, so I'm all for it. – Charlotte Pence	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life. – Philip Sidney	added by Soulwriter 2 years ago
In an imitation we always lose the true expression, in a plagiarism we always become the superficial attempt to reach an unprecedented depth. – Martin Tobias Lithner	added by anonymous 3 years ago
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery but the Astros right now are not who we want our kids imitating, cheating has no place in sports at any level and so we decided that ... for right now the Astros are suspended from our league. – Bob Bertoni	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These lab-grown diamonds are diamonds. They have the same physical and chemical properties. We're not talking about an imitation. – James Shigley	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We're not saying these imitation plant-based products don't have a role in the marketplace. – Chris Galen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
A cruder imitation of Donald Trump who stokes white supremacy and brags about being' ruthless and vicious,' Corey Stewart would be an embarrassment for Virginia in the Republican Senate. – Tim Kaine	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville	added by anonymous 6 years ago
When he put out albums like Heroes and Low, no one was doing anything like that, and then he gave birth to the New Romantic scene. He's a genre-breaker, and I can't wait for the ? imitation albums to start coming out. – Tony Visconti	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The speech from Graham Moore for 'The Imitation Game' was a standout, unexpected, moving moments like that make the Oscars worth watching. – Glenn Selig	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser, yes, it's a crowd pleaser but the guy kills himself. We've achieved something, it's a beautiful challenge. – Morten Tyldum	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Lukashenko will make an imitation of democracy like he did every time when he badly needed cash, the West has quite a short memory. – Stanislav Shushkevich	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds. – Lydia Child	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni. – W. H. Auden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. – Umberto Eco	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations. – James Madison	added by anonymous 10 years ago
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in imitation is universal. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Imitation is suicide. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. – Vinet	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. – Greville	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 13 years ago

It’s proving capable of capturing the public’s imitation and shaping their baseline judgment about how bad things are, it acts as a crystallizing symbol for broader institutions not functioning.

– Jonathan Simon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These snacks are far from a slice of pizza. They're typically filled with sodium, fat, lots of additives for preservation, such as nitrates and phosphates and even imitation cheese, i recommend having a slice of real, thin crust pizza if you're craving pizza.

– Kaleigh McMordie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, we have two books that are giving to charities that are both about bunnies, so I'm all for it.

– Charlotte Pence

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.

– Philip Sidney

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

In an imitation we always lose the true expression, in a plagiarism we always become the superficial attempt to reach an unprecedented depth.

– Martin Tobias Lithner

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery but the Astros right now are not who we want our kids imitating, cheating has no place in sports at any level and so we decided that ... for right now the Astros are suspended from our league.

– Bob Bertoni

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These lab-grown diamonds are diamonds. They have the same physical and chemical properties. We're not talking about an imitation.

– James Shigley

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We're not saying these imitation plant-based products don't have a role in the marketplace.

– Chris Galen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A cruder imitation of Donald Trump who stokes white supremacy and brags about being' ruthless and vicious,' Corey Stewart would be an embarrassment for Virginia in the Republican Senate.

– Tim Kaine

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

– Herman Melville

added by anonymous
6 years ago

When he put out albums like Heroes and Low, no one was doing anything like that, and then he gave birth to the New Romantic scene. He's a genre-breaker, and I can't wait for the ? imitation albums to start coming out.

– Tony Visconti

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The speech from Graham Moore for 'The Imitation Game' was a standout, unexpected, moving moments like that make the Oscars worth watching.

– Glenn Selig

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser, yes, it's a crowd pleaser but the guy kills himself. We've achieved something, it's a beautiful challenge.

– Morten Tyldum

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Lukashenko will make an imitation of democracy like he did every time when he badly needed cash, the West has quite a short memory.

– Stanislav Shushkevich

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

– Lydia Child