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  • #51
    Re: crackpots

    Tuesday, August 09, 2016
    ***************************
    FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
    *******************************
    My only reply
    to irrational disagreement
    is hostile silence.
    *
    A woman philosopher once said that
    to find and keep a husband
    has a lot to do with pig farming.
    *
    If you understand 99 things
    you will be brought low by that single thing
    you failed to understand.
    *
    If you know an Armenian writer
    who makes minimum wage,
    please let me have his email:
    I could learn from him.
    #

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    • #52
      Re: crackpots

      Politics and big business:
      they are both conducted by individuals
      without a conception of right and wrong.
      This is as true of Turks as it is of Americans,
      and we are no better.
      #armenians

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      • #53
        Re: crackpots

        If a man is an idiot he will behave like an idiot. History does not repeat itself; we do! #armenians

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        • #54
          Re: crackpots

          The only reason I became a writer is that
          I failed in everything else.

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          • #55
            Re: crackpots

            In our environment if you kiss one ass
            and ignore another you make an enemy.
            #armenians

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            • #56
              Re: crackpots

              Wednesday, August 10, 2016
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              ON LEADERSHIP
              ******************************
              Mussolini and Italians,
              Hitler and Germans,
              Stalin and Soviets,
              Trump and Yanks:
              Political leaders are idiots.
              *
              As understanding develops,
              so does the art of deception.
              *
              Enemies are misunderstood friends.
              *
              Modern philosophers are not easily accessible
              probably because they know what happened
              to Socrates and Jesus.
              *
              The function of philosophy is to tell us
              where is the beginning of the road.
              #

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              • #57
                Re: crackpots

                As a child I was taught there are
                two kinds of “nahadags” or martyrs:
                regular nahadags and “esh (jackass) nahadags.”
                A regular nahadag is one who dies
                in the name of a cause he believes in.
                A jackass nahadag, by contrast,
                dies in the name of a lie someone else pretends to believe in;
                or, in Sartre’s words, someone
                who “believes that he believes but he doesn’t.”

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                • #58
                  Re: crackpots

                  Thursday, August 11, 2016
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                  FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
                  **************************************
                  Never disagree with someone you don’t know:
                  he may be a fool or a fanatic.
                  *
                  A disagreement is a dead end only to idiots.
                  *
                  I make a list of bloodthirsty dictators
                  and I conclude that mobs (or the 99%)
                  have a natural tendency to fall for
                  loud-mouth crooks and charlatans.
                  *
                  19th-century Canadian slogan:
                  “Kill the Indian, save the man.”
                  #

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                  • #59
                    Re: crackpots

                    Friday, August 12, 2016
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                    ON JUSTICE & CIVILIZATION:
                    A DIALOGUE
                    **************************************
                    Q: From Socrates to Gandhi:
                    fools have consistently conspired
                    to persecute and silence the wise.
                    Why? There must be an answer
                    that makes sense.
                    Q: The obvious answer?
                    They hate to be exposed as fools,
                    especially if they have classified themselves
                    as smart and morally superior.
                    Q: To avoid being exposed as fools,
                    they commit murder? Doesn’t make sense.
                    A: They don’t think what they do is murder.
                    Q: If not murder, what?
                    A: Execution: a painful act that must be performed
                    in defense of civilization and justice.
                    Q: I find it difficult to believe
                    they can’t see the absurdity and criminality
                    of what they do.
                    A: Consider some of your own greatest blunders:
                    Did you think of them
                    as blunders when you committed them?
                    Q: No, of course not.
                    A: There is your answer!
                    #

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                    • #60
                      Re: crackpots

                      To how many of my fellow men I could say, I was dead wrong to think of you as an idiot, and you were absolutely right to think of me as one.

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