Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game."
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Imitation
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Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature"
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Art only begins where Imitation ends."
Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."
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"Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end."
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"When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination."
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"Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning."
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"All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small."
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"No man was ever great by imitation."
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"Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators."
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"If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation."
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"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."
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"I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation."
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"A good imitation is the most perfect originality"
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"It is always better to be an original than an imitation."
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"It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire."
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"In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt."
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"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."
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"You may imitate, but never counterfeit."
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"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."
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"All art is an imitation of nature."
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"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
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"Imitation is the sincerest flattery."
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"We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing."
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