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"Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile."
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"Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy."
"You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy."
"I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars to beggar just because I can, the power to offer an expensive remote control helicopter to children and create a huge smile in them, the power to wait for the ones you love to love you back just because you don't need to waste your time like they do."
"Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have."
"Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times."
"And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors," said Sister Carlotta. "And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent."
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"Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit."
"Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!"
"But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour."
"Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family."
"Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails."
"The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower."
"Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated."
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