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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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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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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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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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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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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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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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All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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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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Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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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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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
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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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