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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
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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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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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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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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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.
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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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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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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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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
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The Foreign Office knows no secrets.
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
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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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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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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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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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History is the great propagator of doubt.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
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