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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Source: The Society of the Spectacle, ch. 8, sct. 207, 1967.
-- Guy Debord, (Dec 28 1931-1994), French social reformer, author; He was a leader of the Situationist International; his The Society of the Spectacle is one of the great theoretical works on cultural imperialism.

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