1. “Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.”
2. “There is no disinfectant like success.”
3. “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”
4. “I write to discover what I think.”
5. “Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.”
6. “Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.”
7. “A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.”
8. “There is no cure for illusion. there is only the opportunity for discovery.”
9. “More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowing.”
10. “As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.”
11. “A wonderful thin about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.”
12. “Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”
13. “Education is learning what you didn’t know you didn’t know.”
14. “We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.”
15. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
16. “The hero created himself, the celebrity by the media.”
17. “Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.”
18. “Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.”
19. “The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.”
20. “The fog of information can drive out knowledge.”
21. “Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.”
22. “It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.”
23. “The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.”
24. “There is no known device for artistic contraception.”
25. “Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.”
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