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All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.
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guilt
plagiarism
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Rick Riordan |
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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imitation
maturity
originality
plagiarism
writing
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T.S. Eliot |
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As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613 dour prohibitions, we might have avoided the whole nightmare of the Old Testament, and the brutal, crude wrenching of that into prophecy-derived Christianity, and the later plagiarism and mutation of Judaism and Christianity into the various rival forms of Islam. Much of the time, I do concur with Voltaire, but not without acknowledging that Judaism is dialectical. There is, after all, a specifically Jewish version of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, with a specifically Jewish name--the --for itself. The term derives from the word for 'mind' or 'intellect,' and it is naturally associated with ethics rather than rituals, life rather than prohibitions, and assimilation over 'exile' or 'return.' It's everlastingly linked to the name of the great German teacher Moses Mendelssohn, one of those conspicuous Jewish hunchbacks who so upset and embarrassed Isaiah Berlin. (The other way to upset or embarrass Berlin, I found, was to mention that he himself was a cousin of Menachem Schneerson, the 'messianic' Lubavitcher .) However, even pre-enlightenment Judaism forces its adherents to study and think, it reluctantly teaches them what others think, and it may even teach them to think also.
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antisemitism
assimilation
atheism
chabad-messianism
christianity
dialectics
education
enlightenment
ethics
evil
exile
free-thought
germans
haskalah
intellect
isaiah-berlin
islam
judaism
life
menachem-mendel-schneerson
messianism
monotheism
moses-mendelssohn
old-testament
plagiarism
prohibitions
prophecy
rabbis
rebbes
religion
return
rituals
study
thought
voltaire
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Christopher Hitchens |
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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.
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originality
plagiarism
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Malcolm Gladwell |
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"God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them." God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation."
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jonathan-safran-foer
plagiarism
writing
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.
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plagiarism
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Pat Conroy |
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Vassals of an outdated ideology unrelated to the real world, they can, when questioned on this issue, only mumble neoliberal mantras that have delivered the world economic stagnation, rising inequality and global environmental crisis
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australian-government
copyright
neoliberalism
plagiarism
theft
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Richard Flanagan |