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If we are unique, that’s because every individual, tribe, nation, or for that matter, snowflake and grain of sand is unique.

[arabaliozian]

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10/1/2016
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DECLINE & FALL
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Decline and fall is the destiny of all empires.
That’s a rule without exceptions.
There aren’t too many of those
but that’s one of them.
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Nothing comes more easily to man
than to treat his fellow men as subhuman.
In slavery as well as war,
a man ceases to be a human being
and becomes a means to an end.
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For 600 years we made ourselves useful to them.
But the moment we asserted our status as human beings,
we became as undesirable as terminal cancer.
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We live in a world that views asserting one’s humanity
as a capital offense. Hence the formula:
civilization=syphilization.
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Have a nice day!
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[arabaliozian]

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The nastier the person
the more pronounced his need for flattery
or everything that will cover up his nastiness.

[arabaliozian]

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My land, my people, my home, my rivers, my lakes, valleys and mountains, my backyard, my chickens. But never – never! – my blunders.

[arabaliozian]

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Armenians and Turks will begin to understand one another only when they say, “In their place, we would have done the same thing.”

[arabaliozian]

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Saturday, September 24, 2016
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NOTES /COMMENTS
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Orwell in ANIMAL FARM:
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
Armenians everywhere:
“Armenians good, Turks bad.”
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In politics if you raise your voice long enough
you will have a better chance to reach the moronized.
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If you think as an Armenian I must be a mediocrity,
may I reminded you, as a bookworm
I cannot always tell if what I write
is not a quotation.
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Judge a nation by the number of its unsolved problems.
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[arabaliozian]

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One reason I don' mind exposing the negative aspects of our collective existence and ethos is that for everyone who writes as I do, there are dozens of apologists eager to explain and justify our ways on the grounds that everybody does it. There is some truth in that. There is no such thing as a stupid or incompetent nation, only stupid and incompetent leaders and their dupes.
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Simon Vratsian (1882-1969): “All our religious, political and cultural institutions share a single aim, the survival of the nation. If the nation perishes, neither Etchmiadzin nor Antelias, not even God in His heaven, can be of any help to us.”
How many of our present leaders have had the honesty to say as much?

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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When you dislike someone
and can’t tell why it may be because
s/he reminds you of someone
you have been successful in forgetting.
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It could be said of our leaders
that their ambition is to finish
what the Turks started.
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To say “I don’t know”
when you don’t know:
I consider that a noteworthy achievement
for an Armenian.
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There are two kinds of losers:
garden variety and the kind that rise
on the third day.
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[arabaliozian]

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In arithmetic, one plus one makes two. In life, the answer may be eleven or any other given number.