In our world of big names, ...

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.
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 Daniel J. Boorstin

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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 Daniel J. Boorstin
History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, test man's ability to accomodate himself to all the new things he could do.
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 Daniel J. Boorstin
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
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 Daniel J. Boorstin
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
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 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.
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 Daniel J. Boorstin