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Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to…
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been…
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they…
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be…
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All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
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Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash…
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Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild,…
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Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other…
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns,…
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries…
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Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a…
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Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to…
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Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to…
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