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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
A. J. P. Taylor
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A. J. P. Taylor
Age: 84 †
Born: 1906
Born: March 25
Died: 1990
Died: September 7
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only normal people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
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George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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The Foreign Office knows no secrets.
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We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.
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There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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History is the great propagator of doubt.
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Conformity may give you a quiet life it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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