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Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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Asa Don Brown

"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

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Asa Don Brown

"Study the past if you would define the future."

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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

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"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."

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Asa Don Brown

"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."

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"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

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"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."

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"The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."

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"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching."

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"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""
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"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
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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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"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."
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"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."
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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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"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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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
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