crackpots

[arabaliozian]

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God is one, but the lies spoken in His name are without number.
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[arabaliozian]

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Most Greeks and Turks (probably the overwhelming majority) are neither Greeks nor Turks, only citizens of Greece and Turkey. As for my fellow Armenians, I will speak only for myself: On a clear day I can trace my ancestry all the way back to my father.#

[arabaliozian]

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To humanize the dehumanized is a job not for intellectuals but for prophets and messiahs.

[arabaliozian]

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

[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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[Artashes]

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Crack pot could also mean a teaspoon.

[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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[arabaliozian]

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A pundit is useless to an audience of superpundits.

[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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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.