A Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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Daniel J. Boorstin
American - Historian
October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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George Pierce Baker

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Jonathan Dimbleby

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

Jean Houston

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Advertising produces familiarity which produces sales

Paul Cookson

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

William Golding

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Lydia M. Child

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Lacey Mosley

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

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Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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