The Telegraph. Peter Osborne
"What is happening in Egypt is not our business."
Brendan O.Neil.. Democracy cannot be given to people.
"Democracy can never be given to a people. Because democracy is something that people themselves create through the very process of fighting for it. It is in the very struggle for democracy that people win their democratic rights; it is in the very struggle for freedom that people become free.*
President Obamaa's remarks on Egypt.
Today I Learned
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"Beginning in the last decade of the 18th century, firewood output
increased from about 18% of GDP to just under 30% of GDP in the 1830s."
Source.
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