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While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

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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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
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Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.
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But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.
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The hero created himself the celebrity is created by the media.
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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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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.
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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
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