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The image, more interesting than its original, has become the original. The shadow has become the substance.

— Daniel J. Boorstin The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)

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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)

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

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)

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