Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. - Theodor Adorno - Quotesmemo.com

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I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

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Theodor Adorno

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

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

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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

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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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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

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I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.

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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

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Douglas Adams

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In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.

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John Cheever

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I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

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Wernher von Braun

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By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

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