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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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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Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.
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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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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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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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