Daniel J. Boorstin

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1. 1914 age 0

   Born

2. 2004 age 89

   Died

• CPCCH Pounder1 title
• JDJen Drohan1 title
• HKHarvey Keitel1 title
• ASArnold Schwarzenegger1 title
• BIBill Irwin1 title
• WBWilliam Bakewell1 title
• EWEli Wallach1 title
• SMS. Epatha Merkerson1 title
• LTLily Tomlin1 title
• PSPete Seeger1 title

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• Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio —- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how —- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. ... Here at home —- within the family, so to speak —- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

  Daniel J. Boorstin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

  Daniel J. Boorstin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The century after the Civil War was to be an Age of Revolution—of countless, little-noticed revolutions, which occurred not in the halls of legislatures or on battlefields or on the barricades but in homes and farms and factories and schools and stores, across the landscape and in the air—so little noticed because they came so swiftly, because they touched Americans everywhere and every day. Not merely the continent but human experience itself, the very meaning of community, of time and space, of present and future, was being revised again and again, a new democratic world was being invented and was being discovered by Americans wherever they lived.

  Daniel J. Boorstin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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

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