crackpots

[arabaliozian]

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Where mediocrities enter, men of vision are blinded.

[arabaliozian]

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Groucho Marx: “The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
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[arabaliozian]

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Survival in and of itself is nothing to brag about, especially if the best have perished and the worst have survived. What if after being systematically silenced, starved, betrayed to the enemy, alienated, forced into exile and assimilation, the best and the brightest have been eliminated and the collaborators& charlatans have survived?

[arabaliozian]

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As a child I was brought up to brag about the fact that we had survived as empires around us had collapsed and bitten the dust, until I heard someone remark that flies and mosquitoes had also survived as dinosaurs had become fossils - you don't hear them brag about it.

[arabaliozian]

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PATRIOTISM EXPLAINED: If it's ours, it's bound to be good even when it's bad. If it's theirs it's bound to be bad even when it's good. Our fanatics are better than their moderates. Our crooks are classier crooks. Patriotism is a contest whose rules are fixed to favor only one side.#armenians

[arabaliozian]

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A pundit is useless to an audience of superpundits.

[arabaliozian]

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What I am trying to say here has been said before by far better men than myself, among them Aldous Huxley in his PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY, and Arnold Toynbee in the 10th volume of his STUDY OF HISTORY.
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The real aim of all religions, schools of philosophy and mysticism is the same. It is only when religions acquire a power structure, a hierarchy and a bureaucracy, rituals and mumbo jumbo that they betray the original intent of their founders and become instruments of the devil by legitimizing intolerance, fallacies, prejudice, hatred, war and massacre.
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[Artashes]

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Crack pot could also mean a teaspoon.

[arabaliozian]

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Praise heard a thousand times is not enough.
Criticism heard only once is already more than
enough.
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[arabaliozian]

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How smart are we if it took us 600 years to figure them out?