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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
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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Peace
War
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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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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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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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