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> [Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/part-of-sykes-s-motive-was-rooted-in-religiosity-a-devout-catholic-he-2/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

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## Other authors on Armenians

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## More by Scott Anderson

> [“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/do-not-try-to-do-too-much-with-your-own-hands-better-the-arabs-do-it/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [“He wasn’t sure what to do. If he left the rock, it would only take a few minutes of desert air to dry his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/he-wasn-t-sure-what-to-do-if-he-left-the-rock-it-would-only-take-a/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [“nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/nothing-capable-of-sustaining-an-invasion-force-of-any-size-but-in/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [“Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/better-a-thousand-times-the-arab-untouched-the-foreigners-come-out/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/waitresses-soldiers-rickshaw-drivers-old-ladies-selling-vegetables-my/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/the-modern-middle-east-was-largely-created-by-the-british-it-was-they/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [Pain is always preferable to numbness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/pain-is-always-preferable-to-numbness/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [“Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/over-the-course-of-his-wartime-service-lawrence-was-awarded-a-number/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [“Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/part-of-sykes-s-motive-was-rooted-in-religiosity-a-devout-catholic-he/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [“Initial euphoria would give way to shock, shock to horror, and then, as the killing dragged on with no end in sight, horror to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/initial-euphoria-would-give-way-to-shock-shock-to-horror-and-then-as/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/if-wells-are-constructed-right-and-operated-right-hydraulic/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy. The true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/mold-william-henry-yale-also-subscribed-to-roosevelt-s-notions-of-the/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/the-peculiarities-of-my-childhood-of-constantly-moving-through-so/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/among-the-handful-of-british-diplomats-and-military-men-aware-of/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

> [“The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-anderson/the-foreigners-come-out-here-always-to-teach-whereas-they-had-much/)

[Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-anderson/)

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