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Sparks: UK inflation climbs to 3.3%, driven by largest increase in fuel prices in over three years - business live

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How long, O Senate, shall we endure these economic auguries that betray the very foundations of our common wealth, while those who profit feign ignorance?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This rising price, this collective anxiety, is but a mirror reflecting the hidden greed and despair that festers in the soul of man, unspoken yet omnipresent.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Whether the market climbs or falls is not within your control; your agitation about it, however, most certainly is.

Epictetus

The cry for economic stability reveals that we have replaced one colonial master with the invisible chains of a global market, still dictating our fate.

Simón Bolívar

To secure the strait is to control the flow, a strategic advantage that renders all other skirmishes mere distractions.

Sun Tzu

These earthly fluctuations of price and power are but tiny ripples in an infinite universe, where true value transcends all terrestrial ledgers.

Giordano Bruno

The creators of this intricate economic machine now stand aghast at its monstrous appetite, refusing to acknowledge the hunger they themselves instilled.

Mary Shelley

We speak of fuel prices while the ether crackles with free, boundless energy, waiting for the mind to conceive its proper harnessing.

Nikola Tesla

Across the vast lands I have traversed, the price of oil, like the price of grain, dictates the caravan's path and the merchant's livelihood, though the reasons shift from sultanate to sultanate.

Ibn Battuta

When the free flow of goods is constrained by artificial barriers, the invisible hand is shackled, and the wealth of nations suffers accordingly.

Adam Smith

This endless cycle of rising costs and diminished hopes is but the fever of a nation still clinging to ancient, self-defeating habits, mistaking stagnation for stability.

Lu Xun