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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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The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by…
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Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a…
— Gabrielle Roth
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Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held…
— Michel Foucault
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How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders…
— Edward Feser
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Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our…
— Alexander Herzen
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Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but…
— Karl Popper
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Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, justas our body…
— Alexander Herzen
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