Just a quick comment on the recent plagiarism squawk regarding Obama using theory and text from his friend's speech. Petty.
Historical note:
JFK most famous quote -- "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" -- was actually derived from a Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr speech: "to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for the country in return". Was JFK a plagiarist too? Aren't all politicians (or all of us, for that matter) to some extent?
Crikey! If I have to start citing everyone I pilfer colloquialisms from, I'm in deep doo-doo Batman!
*Added bonus quotes (from above Justice's poet father):
"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."
&
"Wisdom is thte abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."
Peace out.
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