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Mart bidi ch’ellank vorovhedev esherou tserke ingats enk.” (Freely translated: We will never acquire the status of human beings because we are at the mercy of jackasses.)#

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Samuel Beckett: "There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet."

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Our generation is lost. We grew up with too much hatred and we cannot imagine a world without it. Our task is now to educate the next generation to think in terms not of hatred but of interests. #armenians

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We have learned nothing from history
because our historians have conspired to convince us
we have done nothing wrong
when in fact we have done nothing right. #Armenians

[arabaliozian]

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The tyranny of the majority
can be as ruthless as that
of any sultan and commissar.

[arabaliozian]

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Thinking against oneself
is one of the cardinal virtues.
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Politicians and honesty are
mutually exclusive concepts.
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[arabaliozian]

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The need to be understood
always exceeds the need to understand.

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Where lawyers and politicians enter,
injustice and lies are sure to follow.

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Have you ever met an Armenian
willing to identify himself as half-Turkish?
And yet, there must be millions of them.
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During 600 years of cohabitation,
who was in a better position to shape the other?