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It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that. ↗


— Mark Twain


#inventors #plagiarism #men

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. ↗


— Robert K. Merton


#plagiarism #humor

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence. ↗


— Malcolm Gladwell


#originality #plagiarism #nature

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. ↗


— Benjamin Disraeli


#merit #plagiarists #preservation

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music. ↗


— Jay Kay


#disco #five #hear #i #listen

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. ↗


— Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#being #plagiarists #stolen #suspicious

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home. ↗


— Zelda Fitzgerald


#believe #fitzgerald #his #home #how

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗


— Charles Kuralt


#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. ↗


— Gilbert Gottfried


#i #i think #influence #nice #plagiarism

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. ↗


— Karl Kraus


#catching #feeling #idea #legitimate #oneself






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