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Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.


Robert K. Merton

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THOMAS MERTON It's not the easiest thing to meet the friends of someone you've fallen in love with...
THOMAS MERTON The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's st...
THOMAS MERTON There was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister. He rides my s...
THOMAS MERTON Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
THOMAS MERTON Think of it, all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody…What a thing it is to s...
THOMAS MERTON Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining thro...
THOMAS MERTON Men in bowlers and dark suits with their rolled-up umbrellas. Men full of propriety, calm and proud,...
THOMAS MERTON Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptat...
THOMAS MERTON The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
THOMAS MERTON In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding...
THOMAS MERTON In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was sud...
THOMAS MERTON Perhaps I am stronger than I think
THOMAS MERTON The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay...
THOMAS MERTON Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants t...
PAUL MERTON Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real
THOMAS MERTON Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
THOMAS MERTON To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many...
THOMAS MERTON We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who ha...
THOMAS MERTON To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to li...
THOMAS MERTON We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to th...
THOMAS MERTON If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
THOMAS MERTON On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn&...
PAUL MERTON Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
THOMAS MERTON To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many...
THOMAS MERTON Be still:
There is no longer any need of comment.
It was a lucky wind
That blew away ...
THOMAS MERTON For Abelard, the death of Christ on the Cross did not, strictly speaking, redeem man: it only offere...
THOMAS MERTON And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,
And as each blow was paid with Blood,
Y...
THOMAS MERTON