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«Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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Knowledge
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commodity, diffusion, dispersion, dispersions, on the contrary, used up
«I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.»
«Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel /movement through space /provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions /perhaps one of the secret terrors /of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.»
«The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
«The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.»
«It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.»
«The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.»
«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.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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abandoned
«We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.»
«A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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