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"Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile."
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"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."

"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."

"But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour."
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"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich."

"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."

"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."

"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."

"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."

"The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous."
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