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“Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.” quote by T. E. Lawrence — Download Open image

“Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.”

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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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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private…

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We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came…

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Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

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