khiana

 

empire treachery

 

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom where he lost the initial thousand page draft on a train.

don't worry

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lateral thinking

"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."
- T. E. Lawrence

square root of 2

"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."
- T. E. Lawrence

all men dream but not equally

"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. It can only be ensured by instinct, sharpened by thought practicing the stroke so often that at the crisis it is as natural as a reflex."

- T.E. Lawrence

on pain

[Lawrence has just extinguished a match between his thumb and forefinger. William Potter surreptitiously attempts the same.]

William Potter: Ooh! It damn well 'urts!

T.E. Lawrence: Certainly it hurts.

Officer: What's the trick then?

T.E. Lawrence: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

Journalist: What is it that attracts you to the dessert?

T.E. Lawrence: It's clean.

From David Lean's 1962 Lawrence of Arabia

warrior

"If you can wear Arab kit when with the tribes you will acquire their trust and intimacy to a degree impossible in uniform."
- T.E. Lawrence, 1917

Phidias

Christopher Hitchens looks at the new Acropolis museum here. The Economist has another perspective here.

An earlier reference to the Parthenon here.

Brough Superior SS100

"We hurl ourselves beyond the body. Our bodies cannot scale the Heavens, except in a fume of petrol, bones, and flesh all pressed inward together." 

- T.E. Lawrence on his obsession with speed; foreshadowing his premature death by motorcycle.

An earlier reference to Lawrence here.

Military Intelligence

Photo of the real T.E. Lawrence.

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General Murray

I can't make out whether you're bloody bad-mannered or just half-witted.

T.E. Lawrence

I have the same problem, sir.

1962's Lawrence of Arabia.

An earlier reference to T.E. Lawrence here.