"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
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."
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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
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"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
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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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