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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our ...

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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Some are born great some achieve greatness and some hire public relations officers.

When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous...

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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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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images s...

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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a stud...

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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out k...

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A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers...

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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The t...

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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It ...

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed wit...

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Daniel J. Boorstin

Historian

Born: 1914-10-01

Died: 2004-02-28

Daniel J. Boorstin (1 October 1914 – 28 February 2004) was an American historian, professor, attorney, and author. He served as the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in 1969-1973 and was the Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987. His book trilogy, The Americans: The Colonial Experience, The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience received the Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize. In 1989, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters was bestowed upon him.More