T. E. Lawrence

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June 27, 2020

Name: T. E. Lawrence
Born: 08/16/1888
Died: 05/19/1935 (46 years old)

Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888– 19 May 1935), was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer. He was renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.

Birth Name: Thomas Edward Lawrence

Awards: Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Croix de guerre

Alias: Lawrence of Arabia

Birth Place: Tremadog, Carnarvonshire, Wales

Death Place: Bovington Camp, Dorset, England

Source: Wikipedia

T. E. Lawrence quotes :

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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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