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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

Biography

Author Profession: Historian
Nationality: American
Born: October 1, 1914
Died: February 28, 2004

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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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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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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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