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I'm into emulation, not imitation.
Chuck Inglish /
Emulation
Imitation
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Saul Bellow / Writer
Emulation
Reader
Writing
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Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
Alan Cohen / Writer
Leadership
Emulation
Motivation
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A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.
William Maxwell / Editor
Emulation
Moved
Reader
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An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.
William Shakespeare / Poet
Emulation
Envious
Fever
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Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
Benjamin Disraeli / Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
Competition
Emulation
Inspiration
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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
Ambrose Bierce / Journalist
Capacity
Emulation
Envy
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Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
Ouida / Novelist
Emulation
Envy
Virtue
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More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.
Johnny Hunt / Pastor
Leadership
Emulation
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Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.
Janine Benyus / Science Writer
Conscious
Emulation
Genius
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding / Novelist
Begets
Emulation
Envy
Great Souls
Political
Soul
Base
Minds
Souls
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Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
Henry Fuseli / Painter
Emulation
Envy
Vampire
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Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.
Horace Mann / American Politician
Emulation
Praise
Students
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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Honore De Balzac / Novelist
Emulation
Envy
Role Models
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Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Emulation
Folly
Vanity
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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
Hosea Ballou / Writer
Charity
Emulation
Spontaneous
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Best Way
Democratic
Emulation
Land
Memorable
Way
Worthy
Here
Enhance
Lands
System
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Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.
Sydney Thompson Dobell / Poet
Emulation
Envy
Sin
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Knowledge
Curiosity
Emulation
Leisure
Might
Trifles
Useful Knowledge
Advances
Useful
Diverted
Laborious
Minute
Soon
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Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.
Ken Danby / Painter
Artist
Development
Emulation
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There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation.
Tullian Tchividjian / Pastor
Bible
Emulation
Impulse
Inspiration
Sanctification
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If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd U.s. President
Wise
Men
Emulation
Virtue
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When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.
Samuel Johnson / Writer
Emulation
Incentives
Self
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
Thorstein Veblen / Economist
Business
Emulation
Self
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Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of life which the envier can't hope to attain through hard work and emulation.
Martha Nussbaum /
Anger
Emulation
Enjoy
Envy
Good Things
Hard
Hard Work
Toxic
Life Work Hope
Attain
Involves
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The Dolphins' is my tribute to all those selfless mothers and women that I have ever come across, including my own mother, Indira. Some 75 per cent of mothers that I have seen are like that, all of them worthy of emulation.
Anoop Menon /
Dolphins
Emulation
Including
Mother
My Own
Selfless
Tribute
Worthy
Across
Seen
Cent
Per
Mothers
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It is of no consequence whether a man of genius have learned either art or science before twenty-five: all that is necessary, or even desirable, is that his powers should be unfolded, his emulation roused, and his habits conducted into a right channel.
William Godwin / Journalist
Consequence
Desirable
Emulation
Twenty Five
Channel
Habits
Powers
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Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author
Emulation
Example
Liberty
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I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
Joseph Lancaster /
Conviction
Emulation
Genius
Gratification
Latent
Merit
Order
Self
Self Interest
Servant
Youth
Useful
Easily
Directed
Establish
Induced
Orders
Several
Sordid
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When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.
Hannah More / Writer
Contentment
Emulation
Vanity
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Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not only in their aims but in their method. We have no better example of what is worthy of emulation abroad than the workings of a good union.
Robert Kennedy / Former U.s. Senator
Chosen
Concern
Democratic
Determined
Dignity
Emulation
Example
Individual
Membership
Method
Abroad
Aims
Organizations
Freely
Large
Policies
Union
Themselves
Workings
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