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1. "the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality." ~ Tony Judt
2. "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." ~ Tony Judt
3. "My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books." ~ Tony Judt
4. "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 its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek." ~ Tony Judt
5. "I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing." ~ Tony Judt
6. "In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them." ~ Tony Judt
7. "The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them." ~ Tony Judt
8. "We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance." ~ Tony Judt
9. "Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life." ~ Tony Judt
10. "But I'm English. We don't do uplifting." ~ Tony Judt
11. "History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same." ~ Tony Judt
12. "I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views." ~ Tony Judt
13. "I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it." ~ Tony Judt
14. "I don't much mind being expelled from communities." ~ Tony Judt
15. "I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when." ~ Tony Judt
16. "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." ~ Tony Judt
17. "It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel." ~ Tony Judt
18. "Reality is a powerful solvent." ~ Tony Judt

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