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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Daniel J. Boorstin
Age: 89 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 1
Died: 2004
Died: February 28
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We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
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The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
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When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.
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The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
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God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.
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