"The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated,……" — Tony Judt
"The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them."
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59 Quotes by Tony Judt
Tony Judt has 59 quotes on this site.
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If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a…
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Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine…
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Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.
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All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may…
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The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its…
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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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Israel today is bad for the Jews,
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It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young…
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More Agility Quotes
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No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more…
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts…
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I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a…
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Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than…
— Ray Stata
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead…
— Steve Ballmer
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The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed…
— Robert S. Johnson
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To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch,…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or…
— Dillon Burroughs
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Lleyton Hewitt... his two greatest strengths are his legs, his speed, his agility and his competitiveness.
— Pat Cash
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