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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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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University Teacher
Alan John Percivale Taylor
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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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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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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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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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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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