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• All countries hate their immediate neighbors and like the next but one.
  (For example, the Poles hate the Germans, Russians, Czechs, and Lithuanians, and they like the French, Hungarians, Italians, and Latvians....
• 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...
• Other people's patterns of expenditure and consumption are irrational and slightly immoral.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical.
  (Examples: Japanese on warplanes, Russians on the bomb, Iranians on refineries ....
• By the time a social science theory is formulated in such a way that it can be tested, changing circumstances have already made it obsolete.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• The less you enjoy serving on committees, the more likely you are to be pressed to do so.
  (Explanation: If you do not like committees, you keep quiet, nod your head, and look wise while thinking of something else and thereby acquire the reputation of being a judicious and cooperative colleague...
• Where there are Muslims, there is oil; the converse is not true.
  -- Law of Petroleum -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...