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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.
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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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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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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The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
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