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From: "Pamela Berger" <>
Subject: Re: FW: [DNA] Some thoughts about the near future
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:49:37 -0600
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James, I didn't interpret that quotation as the work of the person on this
list. That line from Shaw is so well known and so identified with Robert
Kennedy that I can never read it but mentally hear the words in his Boston
accent, and feel a glimmer still of the great hopes of those times. I
don't think any plagiarism was intended here--let's give people the benefit
of the doubt to some extent or we will have a list of arguments instead of
genetic genealogy. Famous quotations and Bible verses are often used
without attribution in informal communications because the original source
is not known but the quotation is so famous that people will recognize it as
at least that anyway. My opinion, for what it's worth. --Pam Berger

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Subject: Re: FW: [DNA] Some thoughts about the near future


> In a message dated 3/29/2004 9:24:47 AM Central Standard Time,
> writes:
> > Some people look at things as they are and ask "why"? Others see things
> > that have never been and ask "why not?"
>
> It is plagiarism to represent someone else's quote as your own. This is a
> quote from George Bernard Shaw. It was often quoted by Robert F. Kennedy,
making
> it particularly offensive that you failed to properly source it.
>
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