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«Trendy is emulating your children while they emulate your parents»
«Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh»
Author: Burmese Proverb
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«There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.»
Author: Floyd Dell
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«What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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Pride
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«Quite naturally, common people take inspirations from them and try to emulate them.»
«Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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«One should strictly avoid stupid people and if one is forced to stay in their company, one should not emulate them, on the contrary one should strive to bring a change in them. »
«What do we lose by another?s good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them,That should be our desire and determination.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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«By emulating learned ones can one attain wisdom necessary to discriminate between evil and good. These great souls have attained knowledge after great contemplation and hence their wisdom is unquestionable.»
«The commoners can become knowledgeable only by emulating the senior scholars who are more knowledgeable and by following their sayings and teachings. »
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