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For emphasis, I am re-quoting the following:

Indeed, a curious pattern has emerged among Turnitin's clients: good universities, such as Duke, Rutgers and Cornell, employ it. Those that like to think of themselves as top-notch, such as Princeton, Yale and Stanford, do not. According to Dr Barrie, “You apply our technology at Harvard and it would be like a nuclear bomb going off.”

[dagny taggert]

Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please 'research'.

Tom Lehrer

[Mitchell]

The Economist plagiarized the title from Tom Lehrer's song Lobachevsky. (I didn't see an attribution.)

[Ole Okie]

From a radio broadcast: "He who is most original conceals his sources the best".

Certainly applies in plagerism.

[boris]

In high school, I had a series of complete idiots teaching English. One annoyed me so greatly that, for one of his writing assignments, I simply plagiarized Ray Bradbury's version of The Fall of the House of Usher. I wanted to be caught but was pretty confident he was so dumb that I was safe.

I got an "A". Mr. Bradbury would be proud. At no time did the moron think: "How did a 16-year-old learn to write so well?"

--Boris