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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 ....
• Where there are Muslims, there is oil; the converse is not true.
  -- Law of Petroleum -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• The degree of a country's development is measured by the ratio of the price of an automobile to that of the cost of a haircut.
  The lower the ratio, the higher the degree of development. -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• By the time a social science theory is formulated in such a way that it can be tested, changing circumstances have already made it obsolete.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• Cynics are right nine times out of ten; what undoes them is their belief that they are right ten times out of ten.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• When we call others dogmatic, what we really object to is their holding dogmas that are different from our own.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• 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....
• All countries hate their immediate neighbors and like the next but one.
  (For example, the Poles hate the Germans, Russians, Czechs, and Lithuanians, and they like the French, Hungarians, Italians, and Latvians....
• 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...