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Posted By azies 9 months ago in NewsAs anyone here at Cracked will tell you, without even the slightest provocation, writing is hard. When the strain of coming up with new material becomes too great to bear, a writer has two options: He can pepper his work with penis jokes and pictures of cute animals (see our entry on T.S. Eliot, below), or he can steal his words from a better writer.
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david_nwpa9 months ago
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Fascinating look at some of the more brilliant writers of the last 200 years. I wonder to what degree the plagiarism crosses language barriers. For example, did Goethe steal, I mean borrow, his words from Voltaire or vice versa? The article would make more sense to me as the greatest plagiarism artists who wrote in English. Then again, that is sorta hard to fit on the title line.
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take44439 months ago
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Plagiarizers galore... investigate Prince, aka the artist formerly known as Prince, and you'll find he was a prolific thief. I don't think he ever created a single original song.
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Joseph Smith, founder and false profit of the Mormons, stole a variety of works to patch together the nonsense that that pathetic sect is build upon.
Whenever a thief is discovered he should always be held to the flame and made to suffer consequence -- even if that happens to be MLK. -
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Charlson9 months ago
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Examples of the means justifying the end? Attaining your life's goal by stealing words and ideas from others without acknowledgments or attribution is not without peril; you will have to live with your lie in hopes of not being exposed as a fraud.
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