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Daniel J. Boorstin

"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

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"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

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"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."

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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."

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"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"

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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."

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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."

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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

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"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises."
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"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."
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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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"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."
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