QUOTES in CAN

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. - Lady Marguerite Blessington, Countess of Blessington

Have you ever discovered your post in another site without being duly recognized as the original source of its contents? Or someone else has plagiarized your work as their own and you get wrongly accused of plagiarism?

Sad to say, I discovered some of my posts in various blogsites, in its entirety without any due credits.  I do not know if I will be flattered that they liked my posts so much they took it as their own or should I show pity for these bloggers for their intellectual poverty?

According to this site which specializes in plagiarism:

“Changing the words of an original source is not sufficient to prevent plagiarism. If you have retained the essential idea of an original source, and have not cited it, then no matter how drastically you may have altered its context or presentation, you have still plagiarized.”

Plagiarism is an ancient craft. Famous personalities from literature, entertainment, history, academia, politics, journalism, science, etc were/are involved. The blogoshpere is half-filled with bloggers who paraphrase  or worse, lazy copycats who did not even mind of editing but just copied and pasted on their own site without giving proper linking to the author.

Should I call them textual vampire? Content or intellectual thief? Well, they are just devoid of any imaginations, experiences, style and grey matters.

However, my appreciation goes to  Mhaya , Tyriel , Bien Zoleta, Joiei  and many others for linking back to my posts.

PLAGIARISM QUOTES

They had their lean books with the fat of others’ works. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy–Democritus to the Reader

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. - Josh Billings

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. - Wendell Phillips

Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. - Alexis Piron

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. - George A. Moore

When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims–Quotation and Originality

My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, “You are a thief.” - Marcus Valerius Martial, Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 53)

Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research. - John Milton, Iconoclastes (XXIII)

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. - Charles Caleb Colton

Originality is undetected plagiarism. - William Ralph Inge

I could tell you which writer’s rhythms I am imitating. It’s not exactly plagiarism, it’s falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. - Charles Kuralt

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. - Gilbert Gottfried

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. -Michael Eyquen de Montaigne

There is nothing original; all is reflected light. - Honore de Balzac

We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy–Democritus to the Reader

Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket. - Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith)

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. But in this respect every author is a Spartan, being more ashamed of the discovery than of the depredation. - Charles Caleb Colton

Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. -Howard Aiken

I don’t like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. -Howard Dietz

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. -Josh Billings

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling

Plagiarism is intellectual fraud. - Barry R. Gross in his review of Theodore Pappas’ The Martin Luther King, Jr., Plagiarism Story.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. - Charlotte Cushman

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised.- Isaac D’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature–Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity

The high-tech industry has . . . put the youngsters into such a rip-burn-share frenzy that they have no inkling that intellectual property matters. The scary part? These are the same values that we’re seeing in the adult workplace. - Robin Raskin,former editor of PC Magazine and FamilyPC in a letter to the New York Times (April 7, 2005).

Our best thought comes from others. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Filed under: Famous plagiarist, PLAGIARISM QUOTES, PLAGIARISM by ross

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never  saying a word too much” - Mark Twain

“Never saying a word too much”, is one wisdom I discovered from my birman cat. I have come to understand its purring which means happiness or is in a traumatic or painful situation.

How do we, humans react in such conditions? We tend to complicate our emotions! Our relationship is often mixed with lack of trust, fear of loss of control, hesitancy to expose our vulnerability, doubt, and a resistance to relinquishing our own self-interest. What do we do then? We talk a lot! We want to be the center of attention. We want to inflict pain on someone else…verbal pain, especially when we are angry or hurt. We want to control the conversation or situation.

It is like the cat’s way of hissing. Unfiltered words can destroy a relationship. We should learn to put a lid on our lips and practice self-control.

We should know that the world around us has an intense charm to reap what we sow .
When we hiss, the world tends to hiss back. When we criticise, condemn, attack, act self-righteously, etc. we tend to see that strongly coming back at us like an enormous mirror.

Conversely, when we begin to purr, when we begin to show some understanding and even appreciation of the other, that is the energy that tends to come back at us. Then the situation can spiral upward.

This fundamental concept  applies to anything whatsoever—to any dispute, to any situation, to any relationship of whatever nature, to any feeling or thought that shows up inside of us—to anything at all.

This fable reminded me again the value of talking less. As Kathrine Palmer Peterson said: “Our words should be purrs instead of hisses. ”

“Lord, grant me the help of your Spirit to think about my words before they leave my mouth forever. Give me such love for You and others that I speak with THEM in mind, and not just myself. When I would speak angrily, grant me grace to put a lid on it! May I be seen and HEARD as wise because of both the QUALITY and QUANTITY of my words. Amen.”

CAT QUOTE

A cat’s got her own opinion of human beings. She don’t say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. -Jerome K. Jerome

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” - Leonardo da Vinci

In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.” - English Proverb

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement and love without penalties.”
- W. L. George

The cat seldom interferes with other people’s rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.” - Carl Van Vechten

Beware of people who dislike cats.” - Irish Proverb

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.” - Colonial American Proverb

With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?” - Fernand Mery

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” - Winston Churchill

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.” - Doris Lessing

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” - Hippolyte Taine

A meow massages the heart.” - Stuart McMillan

If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. -J.A. McIntosh

If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love. -Lloyd Alexander

A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather. -Judith Merkle Riley

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. -Edgar Allan Poe

The cat seldom interferes with other people’s rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. -Carl Van Vechten

Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” - Mark Twain

With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?” - Fernand Mery Her Majesty the Cat

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” - Hippolyte Taine

Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep. - John Dobbin

Don’t think that I’m silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats! - Michelle Gardner

Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you’re hungry, eat. When you’re tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet’s, pee on your owner. - Gary Smith

Cats come and go without ever leaving. -Martha Curtis

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. - Pablo Picasso

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.”- George Mikes

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.”- George Mikes

You own a dog but you feed a cat.”- Jenny de Vries

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. -Joseph Wood Krutch

After scolding one’s cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. -Charlotte Gray

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.” - Anonymous

A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs.”- Sarah Thompson

Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place.”- Paul Gray

One must love a cat on its own terms.”- Paul Gray

For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.” - Anon

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? -Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580

“I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.”- Jean Cocteau

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” - Abraham Lincoln

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.” - Albert Schweitzer

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.”- Tay Hohoff

God made the cat in order that humankind might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger.”- Fernand Mery

Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.”
- Jim Davis

Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives. -Stephen Baker

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days. -Bill Dana

Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won’t attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. -Helen Powers

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. -Jean Burden

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. -Carl van Vechten

• “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”- Unknown

• “Dogs have owners, cats have staff.” - Unknown

One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do.”- Barbara Webster

Filed under: Lessons from cats, ANIMAL, CAT QUOTES, CAT by ross

When you forgive, you set a prisoner free. And then you discover that the prisoner was you.”- Lewis Smedes

It’s past midnight, I have darkness as my pillow and clock’s ticking as my elusive mantra searching for an answer within me. Lately, I have been receiving a lot of sms’ asking me “how are you?” but this time, I received an offer from Hire Me via PayPerPost Direct!

 to write about:

This is a very unique offer. It did not happen by chance. I believe it is the Good Spirit’s way of nudging me to stop and look inside myself, or perhaps,  asking me to revive my blog site.

As I listen to the clock’s tapping sound, surprisingly, it transported me to the music of India.Aire’s “Wings of Forgiveness” .  Now, I have my answer!

There are many sources of pains and hurts which lie within us and I am convinced the only root has to do with unresolved issues within ourselves.

Forgiveness may be the key that would unlock a lot of those hurts yet, why are we struggling with forgiveness? I have two reasons: we cannot forgive ourselves and we cannot forgive God.  This is a gross! you’ll tell me.

However, I challenge you to look deep down inside you. Look at your thoughts, your secrets, your past, your fears, your insecurities, the people you like and you don’t, your behavior. We are afraid of not being loved or accepted if we reveal  our true face and value.

We cannot forgive easily who deliberately and deeply wound us by slander and gossip; a betrayal by a friend or partner; an abusive parent or relative; a non-paying debtor? a rapist or a murderer? We seem to lost our self-esteem. We don’t have that building confidence to move forward and let go. We become imprisoners of our own fears and unconsciously we cannot forgive ourselves. Those issues become unresolved within ourselves. Looking inside me, it is enough to make me crawl in shame and hide.

Likewise, I said it is hard to forgive God. How many of us have asked, “Where is God and what is he doing when good, decent or poor people hurt, deeply and unfairly?” Sometimes life doesn’t seem fair and we can’t figure it out.

A woman prays for seven years to have a child and never gets one while another gets an abortion to get rid of what that woman wants more than anything in life. One follows all the rule of good health and dies of a brain tumor at thirty-five; her friend abuses his body with alcohol, smoke and drug and lives to be ninety. Children turning out differently from the way we had hoped and dreamed, or, one of our kids tragically dies still in their tender years and we don’t understand? There are too many cases of contradictions around us, too vague to accept and comprehend.

This then become another unresolved issue within ourselves every-time we have a direct experiece of “life is unfair!” or “God is unfair!”.

So, how am I? Honestly, I am struggling with forgiveness. I want to forgive completely. I desire to close the cycle of “we hurt, we hate, we heal, we reconcile” in a shorter time.

The last phase is difficult: reconciling or restoring a broken relationship no matter how seriously it was damaged.  I need a Supreme Grace to achieve it. I need to forgive myself to be free for I believe forgiveness will release me from the punishment of a self-made prison where I am both the inmate and the jailer.

Am I doing good?  Tell me.

How are you? Come stai nanetto?

ti ringrazio per questa offerta. Ma come sei molto abile a togliere la mia attenzione da tante distrazione ed riaverla per te questa volta! Sei davvero un buon amico,  sempre pronto a costruire un altro ponte al costo di pagare ;)  Alla prossima volta, metti un po’ di piu’

 FORGIVENESS QUOTES

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.” - Mahatma Gandhi

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” - Catherine Ponder

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. - Alden Nowlan

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. - Koran

To err is human; to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope

Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” - Jesus (Luke 23:34 )

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. -Mahatma Gandhi

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note–torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. - Henry Ward Beecher

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.” -Voltaire

A mature Christian has capacity to absorb the offenses and weaknesses of others, not just demand they perform up to the code of ideals. -Stephen Crosby

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. -Cherie Carter-Scott

The offender never pardons. -George Herbert

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.-George Herbert

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.—Unknown

Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively. - David McArthur & Bruce McArthur

A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit. -Hannah More

Forgiveness means that you’ve decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. -Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me. -Sara Paddison

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. -William A. Ward

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. -Lewis B. Smedes

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.-William Blake

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. -Robert Quillen

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. -Jessamyn West

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. -Lord Chesterfield

Don’t tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. -Logan Pearsall Smith

Forgiveness is . . . accepting God’s sovereign use of people and situations to strip you of self importance, and humiliate your self love. -Martha Kilpatrick

Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…and will never happen. -Martha Kilpatrick

Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. -Anonymous

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it. -Mark Twain

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. -E. H. Chapin

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.- Josh Billings

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter

Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. -Dag Hammarskjold

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. -Ellen Goodman

Forgiveness is the final form of love. -Reinhold Niebuhr

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. -H. Jackson Brown

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another’s control… to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else’s nightmare.” - Lance Morrow

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