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[arabaliozian]

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TWO GERMAN PHILOSOPHERS
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On Nietzsche:
When asked what he thought of Nietzsche,
Jules Renard is said to have replied:
"There are too many useless letters in his name."
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On Heidegger:
The son-of-a-xxxxx was a Nazi
who fell in love with one of his students
who happened to be a Jewess.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

To Armenians who demand solutions from me
and choose to ignore the solutions advanced by our historians and writers from Khorenatsi and Yeghishe in the 5th century AD to our own days, I can only say:
As long as there are Armenians like you,
our problems will remain insoluble.
If I know my Armenians,
they will never come to terms with their enemies:
too much blood.
Hell, they will never even come to terms with their fellow Armenians: too much bad blood!
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[arabaliozian]

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Everything I write is rooted in autobiography. The statement “It’s astonishing what a man is capable of doing in exchange of a regular salary” is based on the fact that, even I find it difficult to believe the things I have done for minimum wage.
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[arabaliozian]

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Dupes come in all sizes and shapes.
Dupes of nationalist propaganda
(“my country, right or wrong”) are the dumbest.
I have been there and I know what I am saying.

[arabaliozian]

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Those who say the Armenian genocide is a figment of our imagination do so because they think: "So what’s in it for us if we side with the Armenians? What can we get from them that we can’t get from Turks?"

[arabaliozian]

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We speak like parrots,
drink like fish,
eat like pigs,
fight like dragons,
live in asphalt jungles,
and we call ourselves civilized human beings.
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[arabaliozian]

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If our elder statesmen have a low opinion of one another,
what is their opinion of the people?
“Sh*ts” and “assh*les” according to two friends
quoting two of our “statesmen.”
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[arabaliozian]

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We like to be massaged – body, ego, soul – and we are willing to pay for it handsomely to speechifiers, sermonizers, and generally speaking, dealers in verbal crapola. As for writers who make us feel uncomfortable, we love to see them starved.
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[arabaliozian]

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Only an unspeakably self-satisfied simpleton with the IQ of a jackass would violate someone's free speech on the grounds that free speech is not a fundamental human right but a privilege bestowed only on those who are infallible, among them himself.
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[arabaliozian]

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LIVE & LEARN
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In the eyes of some, genocide is a crime against humanity;
in the eyes of others, a political tool like any other.
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Many years ago I remember
I attended a lecture by a medical expert
who was against surgery on the grounds that
the guillotine cannot be considered
a legitimate cure for headaches.
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According to American foreign policy experts,
genocide may be a tragedy but not a crime.
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If both terrorism and genocide target the innocent,
in what way one is morally superior to the other?
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If Lincoln and Sultan Abdulhamid II were alive today,
would they shake hands and congratulate each other
on a job well done?
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