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To speak a truth that belongs to another is untruth, for speaking belongs to living, hence to speak another’s truth is to live a life that is not one’s own.

— David L. Norton Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976)

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Imitation is replication of particulars, emulation is adoption of an exemplified universal or principle.

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