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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer.

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (1992)

A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)

The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.

The Republic of Technology (1978)

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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