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Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin föddes den 1 oktober 1914 - amerikansk historiker.
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En del mennesker er født store. Andre arbejder sig til storhed. Andre igen ansætter reklamefolk.

Några människor föds stora. Andra jobbar sig till storhet. Andra anställer reklamfolk.

En celebritet är en person som är känd för att vara berömd.

Beröm, Kändisar och Framgång

En del människor är födda stora. Andra förvärvar sin storhet. Andra återigen anställer public relations-personal.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

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.

Livet.se har løst alle mine bekymringer. I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur

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."

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

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

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.

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