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Daniel J. Boorstin has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has…
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting…
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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality…
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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by…
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
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I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for…
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized…
— George Henry Borrow
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The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I'm a sucker for hero worship.
— Ronald Reagan
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Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero;…
— Irwin Edman
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If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.
— Napoleon Hill
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings,…
— Keri Russell
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