'Moving with the Times', The Observer (22 October 1961)
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Why should knowledge of where I came from tell me where I am going to?
— A. J. P. Taylor
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Why should knowledge of where I came from tell me where I am going to?" in the context of "'Moving with the Times', The Observer (22 October 1961)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
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