"The image is made to order, tailored to……" — Daniel J. Boorstin
"The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we serve it. If we have trouble striding toward it, we assume the matter is with us, and not the ideal."
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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