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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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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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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
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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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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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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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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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