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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of…
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If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't…
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Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under…
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In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
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I wasn't really a performer by temperament,
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You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my…
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Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the…
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If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike…
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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
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In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . .…
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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
— William Ralph Inge
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For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own…
— Bruce Schneier
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Genius Borrows nobly.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
— John Dryden
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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
— Lionel Trilling
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The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
— Marcel Proust
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It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
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The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is…
— Jonathan Lethem
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Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.
— Pedro Almodovar
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Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
— Nora Roberts
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There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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