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You will not find it, and not finding it you will die. I will find it, with this. Good army compass, supposing I should take it? Then you would be a thief. Have you no fear English? My fear is my own.
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here I thought this was a terminator 2 thing, no fate, or maybe back to the future 3, your future hasn't been written yet, your future is, whatever you make it!
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It is recognized that you have a funny sense of fun.
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Young men make wars and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
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I am huge fan of the movie, and of the real person. What you see in the movie is only half of the man's extraordinary life and achievements. It completely ignores how exotic a life he lived before and after the war. He is what I would call one of the last Renaissance men of the Twentieth Century; Archeologist, artist, writer, warrior, and philosopher, etc.
I would suggest reading "Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence" by Jeremy Wilson if you are actually interested beyond the celluloid representation.
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By the way, contrary to the movie, it appears that he hated fame (especially after the war where he pretty much went into hiding). However, his interests and talents were such that he couldn't avoid fame. It is hard to say at times if history made him or he made history.
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To be honest, the part I like most is the cinematogrpahy and the script, but I'll be on the look-out for the book, thanks! And when you watch the movie, just keep in mind that the hard cut from when Lawrence blows out the match to the dessert sun is the second best cut in the history of movies!
I am Bedu, we can travel 60 miles in a day.
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I am Auda Abu Tayi!
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You are merely a general. I must be a king.
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With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.
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I'm not hurt at all. Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a golden bullet.
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So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel.
I've wanted to use this in reference to current times, but I would probably be sued before I got to the words "a silly."
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Hobbes have you read 'The Mint'? It's T.E. Laurence's memoirs when he entered the British army ranks at the bottom after WWI to escape from his fame and it turns into his observations on life in the ranks. It's one of the most interesting books I've ever read. My description hardly does it justice. T.E. Laurence is an amazing person.
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I don't remember any pithy lines. Something about all English royalty naming their bastards somthing or other?
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(now where was that bit of rubbish when the "movie lines that don't work in real life" was still active? damned recalcitrant neurons! )
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