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Reality is a powerful solvent.

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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
Essayist
Historian
Non-Fiction Writer
Professor
Teacher
London
England
Tony Robert Judt
Solvent
Powerful
Reality

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We need to start talking about inequality again we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.
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The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.
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My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
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Social democracy does not represent an ideal future it does not even represent the ideal past.
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I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.
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Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
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I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.
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Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
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I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.
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History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
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Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.
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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.
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Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
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How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
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After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.
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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
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We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
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I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
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