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"Armenians are smart!" = 99% wishful thinking and 1% cunning in the marketplace. #armenians

[arabaliozian]

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To be at the mercy of idiots means being lesser idiots.

[arabaliozian]

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We are not smart if only because we have been and continue to be at the mercy of idiots - if it's not Ottoman or Soviet idiots, it's our own.

[arabaliozian]

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Perhaps one reason we feel guilty when accused of a crime we did not even contemplate committing is that, at one time or another, we have probably committed the most unspeakable crimes in our dreams, most of which we may not remember.

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Even belief systems whose central idea is mercy can be merciless against their critics.

[arabaliozian]

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During 600 years of cohabitation,
who was in a better position to shape the other?

[arabaliozian]

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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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[arabaliozian]

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

[arabaliozian]

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

[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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