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• Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical.
  (Examples: Japanese on warplanes, Russians on the bomb, Iranians on refineries ....
• At any given moment, a society contains a certain amount of accumulated and accruing aggressiveness.
  If more than twenty-one years elapse without this aggressiveness being directed outward, in a popular war against other countries, it turns inward, in social unrest, civil disturbances, and political disruption....
• One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs -- but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• Where there are Muslims, there is oil; the converse is not true.
  -- Law of Petroleum -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• Other people's patterns of expenditure and consumption are irrational and slightly immoral.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• In an underdeveloped country, when you are absent, your job is taken away from you
  in a developed country a new one is piled on you. -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• I hate self-referencing tag lines, like this one...