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Half a calamity is better than a whole one.
T. E. Lawrence
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T. E. Lawrence
Age: 46 †
Born: 1888
Born: August 16
Died: 1935
Died: May 19
Aircraft Pilot
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Thomas Edward Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia
of Arabia Lawrence
John Hume Ross
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Thomas Edward Shaw
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
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As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.
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Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.
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Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.
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The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.
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I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.
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Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.
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The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.
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It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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