More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
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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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Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives -- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -- with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists stage.
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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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