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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

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. – Theodor Adorno

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Happiness
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Theodor Adorno
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History
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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. – Henry Louis Gates

Category:
History

People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – Ken Burns

Category:
History

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products. – Shigeru Miyamoto

Category:
History

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman

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History

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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

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Tact, Tactfulness

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. – Andre Maurois

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Women

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. – Ludwig von Mises

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Peace

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. – Georg Brandes

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positive