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From Quotes by Tony Judt
- It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the…
- If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying…
- I don't much mind being expelled from communities.
- Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given…
- Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions…
- I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War,…
- I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering…
- When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.
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