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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
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More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly…to revere God and be God.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.
—Daniel J. Boorstin