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April 7th, 2009
06:57 am
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
-- Mark Twain
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April 3rd, 2009
07:40 pm
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
-- Edward R. Murrow
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July 8th, 2008
07:29 pm
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-- Isaac Asimov
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June 24th, 2008
06:40 pm
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.
-- C. Wright Mills
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June 20th, 2008
11:43 pm
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
-- Lady Marguerite Blessington
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June 19th, 2008
05:30 am
Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket.
-- Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith)
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June 17th, 2008
05:14 am
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-- Kimberly Johnson
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June 15th, 2008
09:58 pm
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
-- Denis Diderot
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June 14th, 2008
08:13 pm
How a real publisher responds to allegations of plagiarism by one of its authors:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/04/19/edwards-romance-signet.html
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June 13th, 2008
08:38 pm
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
-- Susan B. Anthony
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June 12th, 2008
06:34 pm
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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June 11th, 2008
10:40 pm
Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
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June 10th, 2008
06:44 pm
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice
-- Ayn Rand
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June 9th, 2008
08:22 pm
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
-- Hesiod
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June 8th, 2008
05:21 am
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
-- Boris Pasternak
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June 7th, 2008
03:53 am
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
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June 6th, 2008
07:57 am
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice
-- Ayn Rand
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June 5th, 2008
08:53 pm
All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.
-- Barbara Jordan
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June 4th, 2008
11:10 pm
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
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June 3rd, 2008
07:15 pm
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
-- Robert Southey
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