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• 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...
• Other people's patterns of expenditure and consumption are irrational and slightly immoral.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• Where there are Muslims, there is oil; the converse is not true.
  -- Law of Petroleum -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility.
  In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility....
• 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...
• If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $
  100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside....
• If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $
  100, get a million miles per per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside....