Is a country that has an economy dependent solely on revenue from exporting a single product or commodity. As a result, such countries are typically controlled by foreign-owned companies or industries. Banana republics usually have a highly stratified socioeconomic structure, with a small ruling class that controls access to wealth and resources, and are politically unstable.

هالمصطلح نشأ لما الشركات الأمريكية جانت تستغل الأراضي والعمالة الرخيصة ببلدان أمريكا الوسطى والجنوبية وتحتكر زراعة الموز هناك.

"What a disappointment that Epicurus, the sage I most need, should have written over three hundred treatises! And what a relief that they are lost!"
- Emil Cioran

"When was the last time anyone said, ‘It’s my fault’? Already it seems like centuries since Sartre declared, ‘Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.’ Now the opposite is true. Man is responsible neither for nature nor choices."

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ال microbiologists كلهم يمكن يعرفون او سبق وشايفين خطوط دينيس Dienes lines من تزرع سلالتين مختلفتين من البروتيوس على blood agar.

كل سلالة منهم تكون فدمسافة تبعد بيها عن اللخ بسبب ال kin discrimination هلبكتيريا تتعرف على جماعتها، وتبتعد عن الجماعة اللخ الغربه عنها لذلك يتكون على طبق هلشكل المميز.

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Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 
وَلِمَاذَا تَنْظُرُ الْقَذَى الَّذِي فِي عَيْنِ أَخِيكَ، وَأَمَّا الْخَشَبَةُ الَّتِي فِي عَيْنِكَ فَلاَ تَفْطَنُ لَهَا؟

[Matthew 7:3]

But what if the speck in your eye, because it's too close, you see it as if it's a log?
And what if this speck blinds you from seeing even the log in your brother's eye?

People sometimes exaggerate their own inadequacy, forgetting that they are normal humans and should not have such unrealistically high standards

German: «Und was nützen Bücher» dachte Alice, «ohne Bilder und Gespräche?»
English: «And of what use are books,» thought Alice, «Without pictures or conversations?»

- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Driving a Bargain, Cairo" by Arthur Von Ferraris

"Horsemen And Arab Chiefs Listening To A Musician" by Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet