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Daniel J. Boorstin
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
Daniel J. Boorstin
A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
Daniel J. Boorstin
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
W. E. B. Du Bois
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois
One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
H. P. Blavatsky
Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.