To me an unnecessary action, ...

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
 T. E. Lawrence

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.
 T. E. Lawrence
A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.
 T. E. Lawrence
The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
 T. E. Lawrence
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.
 T. E. Lawrence
I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly.
 T. E. Lawrence