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• The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.

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  Christian, Jesus, Father

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “The Discoverers”, p.572, Vintage

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• The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

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  Ocean, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

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• The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.

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  Hero, Names, Achievement

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• We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

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  Business, Desire, Advertising

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.

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  Style, February, Eleven

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “The Discoverers”, p.9, Vintage

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• An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

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  Interesting, Needs, Genius

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• Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character.

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  Character, Giving, Water

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “The Discoverers”, p.29, Vintage

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• A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

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  Book, Selling, Wells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.

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  Ocean, Ice Cream, Sea

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• Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

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  Moving

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.4, Vintage

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• The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.

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  Promise, Important, Lessons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.

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  Eye, Men, Publicity

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.61, Vintage

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• Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

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  Character, Men, Would Be

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1993). “The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson”, p.178, University of Chicago Press

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• It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.

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  Book, Needs, Information

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• . . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

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  Mean, May, Messiness

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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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  Simple, America, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

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  Movement, October, Reform

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “The Discoverers”, p.9, Vintage

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• History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, test man's ability to accomodate himself to all the new things he could do.

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  Men, History, Effort

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• The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.

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  Book, Answers, Helping

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• The variety of minds served the economy of nature in many ways. The Creator, who designed the human brain for activity, had insured the restlessness of all minds by enabling no single one to envisage all the qualities of the creation. Since no one by himself could aspire to a serene knowledge of the whole truth, all men had been drawn into an active, exploratory and cooperative attitude.

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  Attitude, Men, Brain

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1993). “The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson”, p.125, University of Chicago Press

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• The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

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  Thinking, Mind, Vagrants

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• While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.

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  Pride, Government, Cities

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• American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.

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  Civilization, Might, Naive

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• The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

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  Literature, Advertising, Century

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

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  Land, Form, Jew

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