Evan Osnos Quotes

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

You can't be the director of education and plagiarizing.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Politics ruins the character.

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Anything done [in politics] is all right unless you get caught.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

I cheated once on a spelling test. I didn't know how to spell period. I leaned over the desk and looked at someone else's paper. I was probably ten or something like that.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.

What kind of signal is Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving by closeting himself with tainted politicians and financial fraud-accused of YSR Congress undergoing trial?