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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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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way…
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There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit…
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[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history,…
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A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among…
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...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.
— Gerhard
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In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by…
— Jacques Attali
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the…
— Henri Poincare
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We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental…
— Wilder Dwight Bancroft
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American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No.…
— Philip Roth
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