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Daniel J. Boorstin
Age: 89 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 1
Died: 2004
Died: February 28
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While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.
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The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
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The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.
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. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.
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Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.
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The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.
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Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery
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In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.
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The hero created himself the celebrity is created by the media.
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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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The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
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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 tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
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The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.
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Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
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American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.
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In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future
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Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
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We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
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