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Psychoanalysts believe that the only normal people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
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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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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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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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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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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