Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.
If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.