All Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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Education
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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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 things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
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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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Technology
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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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Politics
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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 been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
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