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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
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Historian Of The Modern Age
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
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Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next?
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If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.
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If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.
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The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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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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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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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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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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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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