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After Lawrence’s death, Richards remembered the night they first met, when they sat in front of the fire in his room and they talked and talked, and he unfolded what seem then the extraordinary thought that the world stopped in xv with the coming of printing and gunpowder, then, late that night some deep and quick affection took hold of upon us whose vividness stirs me still and thirty years of passed away. Perhaps Lawrences family also sensed, as parents can do and as Lawrence himself did not s
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When T. E. Lawrence was fighting the Turks in the deserts of the Middle East during World War I, he had an epiphany: It seemed to him that conventional warfare had lost its value. The old-fashioned soldier was lost in the enormous armies of the time, in which he was ordered about like a lifeless pawn. Lawrence wanted to turn this around. For him, every soldier's mind was a kingdom he had to conquer. A committed, psychologically motivated soldier would fight harder and more creatively than a pupp
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― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
