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«Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.»
«I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin | About: Writing | Keywords: bars
«A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.»
«Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.»
«I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur»
«We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.»
«Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.»
«Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.»
«A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin | Keywords: celebrity, services
«The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.»

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