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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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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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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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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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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
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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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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 God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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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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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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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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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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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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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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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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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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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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