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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
Journalist
University Teacher
Alan John Percivale Taylor
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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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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next?
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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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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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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The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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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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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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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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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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If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
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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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We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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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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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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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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