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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
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I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,
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Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.
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The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.
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War upon rebellion was messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander...
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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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The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.
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There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
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Rebels, especially successful rebels, were of necessity bad subjects and worse governors.
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The trouble with Communism is that it accepts too much of today's furniture. I hate furniture.
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There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.
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We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.
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Win and keep the confidence of your leader. Strengthen his prestige at your expense before others when you can.
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Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
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A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.
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Then rose up the horror which would make civilized man shun justice like a plague if he had not the needy to serve him as hangmen for wages.
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Rebellion was the gravest step which political men could take, and the success or failure of the Arab revolt was a gamble too hazardous for prophecy.
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I am proudest of my thirty fights in that I did not have any of our own blood shed. All our subject provinces to me were not worth one dead Englishman.
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They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.
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The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.
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The more unorthodox and Arab your proceedings, the more likely you are to have the Turks cold, for they lack initiative and expect you to. Don't play for safety.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
August 16, 1888
Died:
May 19, 1935
(aged 46)
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