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- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
- Anyhow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
- Tail
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
- Greatest Weapon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
- Indeed
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- Nov 07, 2020
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020