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• 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...
• Last Words of Advice: If you pay your taxes and don't get into debt and go to bed early and never answer the telephone, no harm can befall you.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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...
• 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...