A. J. P. Taylor Quotes, History Quotes, Events Quotes

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

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As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

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The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

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... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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