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• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows up to othe
  but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it....
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
  -- Blaise Pascal...
• 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...
• 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...
• What we send into the lives of others usually manages to find its way into our own.