"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
-Daniel J. Boorstin
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"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.“
-Daniel J. Boorstin
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"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.'"
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"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."
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"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."
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"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."
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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
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