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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Page 2 of 2Daniel J. Boorstin
October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004
Nationality: American
Category: Historian
Subcategory: American Historian
|  The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. | | The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." | | Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. | | Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. | | Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. | | I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. | | 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. |
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