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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

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. – Theodor Adorno

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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. – Susan Sontag

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Radical historians now tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. – Mason Cooley

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I dont seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesnt help me. Precedents dont inform my experience. – Bill Nighy

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History

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. – James Buchan

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I dont feel famous and I didnt want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story. – Beth Ditto

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We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. – Theresa May

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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. – Karl Marx

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Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but its the science of prehistory – palaeontology and archaeology – rather than astronomy or physics. – Jean M. Auel

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