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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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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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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
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History is the great propagator of doubt.
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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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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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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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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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Psychoanalysts believe that the only normal people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
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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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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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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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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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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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