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Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.
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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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London
England
Tony Robert Judt
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We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.
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History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
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