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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
Daniel J. Boorstin



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Author Profession: Historian
Nationality: American
Born: October 1, 1914
Died: February 28, 2004

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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
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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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Words
God, Interesting, Making, Need, Newspaperman, Responsibility, See, Shifted, Theologians, World
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God, Interesting, Making, Need, Responsibility, See, Shifted, World
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