To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and 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.
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