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Quote by Theodor Adorno
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. – Theodor Adorno

Other quotes by Theodor Adorno

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. – Theodor Adorno

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Death
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Theodor Adorno
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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. – Stephen Hawking

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History

The real history of consciousness starts with ones first lie. – Joseph Brodsky

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History

Value people on their potential, not on their history. – Bo Bennett

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History

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world. – Conrad Black

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I havent eaten at a McDonalds since I became President. – William J. Clinton

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Its my first presenting role so Ill be nervous, but its going to be great fun. I cant wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour. – Nicole Appleton

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with mans physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. – Charles Baudelaire

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