#plagiarism

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Gilbert Gottfried

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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ↗

— Guy Debord

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. ↗

— Howard Dietz

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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. ↗

— George A. Moore

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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

#cult thing #dealing #difficult #difficult thing #ever

I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #ideas #plagiarism #funny

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

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

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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ↗

— Dean Inge

#plagiarism #undetected