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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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Battles

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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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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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Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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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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We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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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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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
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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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