In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell. - Theodor Adorno

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What's interesting about the wizarding world is when you take physical strength out of the equation, a woman can do magic just as powerfully as a man can do magic. A woman can fight just the same as a man.

Theodor Adorno

In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.

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The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

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Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

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It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

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When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about this point or that, without offering positive solutions. Winners acknowledge the existence of the problem, but they try to offer practical ideas that can help resolve the matter in a manner that is satisfactory to both parties.

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To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

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