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But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

~Daniel Yergin

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I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

~Dave Eggers

Topics: Again Arabia Desert Felt Great Great People Home Like Lot Love Met More Mountains People Really Saudi Saudi Arabia See Spend Them Time

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But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

~Dave Eggers

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I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

~Dave Eggers

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I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.

~David Benioff

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State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.

~David E. Sanger

Topics: Africa Arabia Been Companies Intelligence Iran Mexico Often Oil Oil Companies Saudi Saudi Arabia State States Targets United United States

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Mr. Trump has been consistent in some areas. Since the late 1980s, he has nurtured a set of preoccupations, chiefly that America's allies - Japan and Saudi Arabia among them - are ripping America off.

~David E. Sanger

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Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Arabia Backed Extremists Frightened Iran Islamic Monarchy Saudi Saudi Arabia State

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When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.

~David J. C. Mackay

Topics: Amount Arabia Big Britain Carbon Coal Domination Form Great Great Britain Industrial Industrial Revolution Led Oil Powered Put Revolution Saudi Saudi Arabia Sitting Started Temporary Underneath World World Domination

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Iran has had a very harmful effect in a variety of ways in the region... fomenting unrest to a degree in Saudi Arabia, undoubtedly in Bahrain, and definitely in Yemen with Hamas, with Lebanese Hezbollah among other activities in locations.

~David Petraeus

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