“At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.”
Source: This Earth of Mankind
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer 7
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“Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 96
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
Source: One Day
“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation.”
                                        
                                        Quote of Gainsborough in a Letter to John Henderson, 27th June 1773 
1770 - 1788
                                    
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
                                        
                                         Letter to James Madison http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-to-james-madison-12/ (2 March 1788) 
1780s
                                    
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness”
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book
                                        
                                        '"Dedication to King Charles". 
De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis (1628)