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• To steal from one person is theft. To steal from many is taxation.
  -- Daiell's Law (a take-off on Felson's Law)...
• Theft from a single author is plagiarism. Theft from two is comparative study.
  Theft from three or more is research....
• Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves from the over-taxed.
• Felson's Law: To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
• To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. -- Felson's Law
• If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
  -- Wilson Mizne...
• Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's _Time Enough For Love_...
• A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
  -- Jessamyn West (Irony is when you buy a suit with two pair of pants, and then burn a hole in the coat....
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