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From Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
- As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We…
- We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we…
- We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new…
- America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach…
- We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
- It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more…
- It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
- Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who…
- The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into…
- Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with…
- I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics…
- I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics…
- We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always readyeven eagerto discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we…
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