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There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'
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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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 force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
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