"Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form……" — Daniel J. Boorstin
"Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in."
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91 Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel J. Boorstin has 91 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously…
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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,…
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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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More Dispersed Quotes
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one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have…
— Alexander Suvorov
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The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of…
— Ronald Reagan
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Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics.…
— Walter E. Williams
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and…
— George Eliot
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It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the…
— Joseph Priestley
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There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to…
— Robert D. Hales
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What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains;…
— William James
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I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better…
— Milton Friedman
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The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path…
— Thomas Nagel
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