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The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.
T. E. Lawrence
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T. E. Lawrence
Age: 46 †
Born: 1888
Born: August 16
Died: 1935
Died: May 19
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If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
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It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.
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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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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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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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Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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I wrote my will across the sky, in stars
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Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
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