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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004

Topics

Knowledge Never Up Used Simply

I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.

Life Lie Ugly People Collaboration

Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!'

Moment Wife Cool Enjoy Look Say

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

Heart Me World Loved Others More

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

Tommy Lee Jones

History Great People Not Perfect

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

Gangster Camera Create Go Out Days

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

New York You Feeling New Give Post

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

Hope House Goal Get Vegetable Patch

Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.

Lucas Papademos

Growth Choice Right Stability Only

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

You Crisis Things Just Mid-Life

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

Life Education Knowledge College

I love to see people laugh and put a smile on peoples' faces. Anytime I'm doing that I'm happy.

Smile Love Happy People Laugh Doing

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

Work Investment Top Emotional Get

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