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Old 07-29-2007, 08:29 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Everything is plagiarized, to think that anyone came up with something that has never been thought of before is plagiarizing, words have been used over and over again as thoughts are not owned by anyone, neither are words!

Secretary of State Colin Powell before the United Nations, 2/5/03 ... That report plagiarized large swaths of an essay written in September of 2002 by a ... t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | Blair-Powell UN Report Written by Student

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Really, tell that to Mark Twain, Ayn Rand, Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK. It is one thing to expand upon an idea first brought to life through paper or speech, but quite another to take the words that someone else has written and pass them as your own. If you were a student and did this, you would be failed and face expulsion. Should we hold our professors to a lower standard than our students?

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Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk-