“ The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ”
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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 discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. ”
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“ The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. ”
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“ The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. ”
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“ More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowing. ”
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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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“ 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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“ Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. ”
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“ Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ”
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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 improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon… ”
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“ A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services. ”
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“ A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services. ”
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“ Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio — empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how — has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades… ”
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“ I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. ”
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“ The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge. ”
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“ The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge. ”
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“ The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon… ”
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“ In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow. ”
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“ In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. ”
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“ An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service. ”
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“ The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived; less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced. ”
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“ When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed. ”
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“ When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed. ”
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“ We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. ”
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“ In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow. ”
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“ We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. ”
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“ Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. ”
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