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Dukakis v Biden 1988: Biden finds himself under the microscope like a pinned bug ... It’s not a sex tape: it’s worse than that … ‘Here is Joe Biden giving a speech: it’s almost word for word what British Labour party leader Neil Kinnock had said … More and more plagiarism.’ Race for the White House s1e3: George H W Bush v Michael Dukakis, journalist, 2016
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin
Of course he’s not a prophet. I mean he is an epileptic plagiarist. He’s a man who went into spasm to order, and summoned the same angel as he was jealous of the Christians for having ... It’s a boring plagiarism of the worst bits of Judaism and Christianity. Unoriginal rip-off by someone who is clearly mentally ill. Christopher Hitchens, ‘Islam and the West’ of Muhammad
But Islam when examined is not much more than an obvious ill-arranged set of plagiarisms. Christopher Hitchens
If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research. Wilson Mitzner
I have found that the most professedly reliable and modern writers have copied the old authors word for word without acknowledgement. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis preface
Of all my verse, like not a single line;
But like my title, for it is not mine.
That title from a better man I stole;
Ah, how much better, had I stol’n the whole! Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods foreword, 1887
He liked those literary crooks
Who skim the cream of others’ books;
And ruin half an author’s graces
By plucking bon-mots from their places. Hannah More, Florio, 1786
I hate like death the situation of the plagiarist; the glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own. Alfred de Musset, La Coupe at les Levres, 1832
Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. Clint Eastwood
I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes. Jimi Hendrix
They lard their lean books with the fat of others’ works. Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
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. Mark Twain, letter to Helen Keller
Mark Zuckerberg was just getting started in Silicon Valley, the tech capital of the world. ‘He lived this completely Spartan lifestyle.’ Mark Zuckerberg: The Billionaires Who Made Our World
Zuckerberg denied stealing the idea, but settled the case in 2008, paying out $65 million. ibid.