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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.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Another Commodity Contrary Diffusion Grows Increases Knowledge Never On The Contrary Simply Up Used

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

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Adding Color Courage Greatest Imagine Life Otherwise Our Resource Suspense

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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Advertising Century Dwarf Force Image Literature Other Power Word 20Th Century

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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: After Bars Discover Early Open Think Write I Think I Write

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

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Bed Lie Make Must You Your

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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Commands Explicit Human Models Moral More Persuasive Than Vivid

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

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Because Book Selling Sold Somehow Well Which

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

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: About Bed Book Computer Contrast Screen Take Thing Wonderful Wonderful Thing You

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We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: God Interesting Making Need Responsibility See Shifted Theologians World

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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

~Daniel J. Boorstin

Topics: Act Bed Done Like Often Privately Reading Sex

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: October 1st, 1914

Died: February 28th, 2004

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