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You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.

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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
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The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.
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