"Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born."

-- Robert K. Merton

#Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Stealing Quotes

“We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award”
“Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.”
“Go insane go insane, throw some glitter, make it rain...!”

Source : Song: Blow, Album: I Am The Dance Commander + I Command You To Dance:The Remix Album, 2011
“I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we tell the world we couldn't care less about climate change, that we feel entitled to drive whatever big cars we feel like, that we feel entitled to consume however much oil we like, the message we send is that a war for oil in the gulf is not a war to protect the world's right to economic survival-but our right to indulge. Now that will be seen as immoral.”
“In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.”
“Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.”

Source : Susan Fletcher (2011). “Shadow Spinner”, p.125, Simon and Schuster
“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”
“Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.”

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