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“I saw myself as the proprietor of a large farm around which I had built a modern village with clean running water and electricity. There was also a hospital, a school, a mosque, and a church. I'd doubled the wages of the workers. Then the warden of the district came to tell me: You stand accused of showing up the neighboring landlords and, therefore, of inciting anarchy and revolt among the innocent peasants.”

“I found myself in a group of young men listening to Osman Bouzi, the most prominent producer of perfumes during my youth: he was calling on us to boycott foreign goods.
My father told me, sitting cross-legged on his prayer rug:
That's all very well, but we haven't yet manufactured the most essential products. I told him: Well, let's start with what is possible.”

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