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• Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
• A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to…
• Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
• Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
• Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
• Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been…
• Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they…
• Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
• Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be…
• All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
• Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
• By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

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