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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.
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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Historian Of The Modern Age
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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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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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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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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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 greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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