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Thursday, April 17, 2008
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DIARY
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The only way to survive in our environment is to flatter the ego of someone with deep pockets. Honesty is anathema in a kleptocracy, plutocracy, and oligarchy, each with its own impenetrable wall of brown-nosing bureaucrats.
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The opposite of love is not hatred but indifference. Likewise, the opposite of being right is not being wrong but being self-righteous. A fool is always self-righteous, never right.
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Napoleon on Talleyrand: “xxxx in silk stockings.”
Talleyrand’s career lasted long after Napoleon’s came to an end. Which may suggest that in politics, crap travels farther than any other ingredient.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
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ON THE ORIGINS OF OUR CANNIBALISM
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Some of the e-mails I get from my self-assessed “patriotic” and “smart” readers (self-assessed, of course) are so offensive that I cannot help thinking a nation that is capable of producing such rifraff and scum faces insurmountable problems.
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The problem with an Armenian assessing himself as smart is that sooner or later and inevitably he will run across another Armenian who has assessed himself as smarter than he, and that’s when the excrement will hit the ventilator.
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Revolutions against tyrants generate worse tyrants. Hence the saying “mart bidi ch’ellank.”
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**********************************************
DIARY
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The only way to survive in our environment is to flatter the ego of someone with deep pockets. Honesty is anathema in a kleptocracy, plutocracy, and oligarchy, each with its own impenetrable wall of brown-nosing bureaucrats.
*
The opposite of love is not hatred but indifference. Likewise, the opposite of being right is not being wrong but being self-righteous. A fool is always self-righteous, never right.
*
Napoleon on Talleyrand: “xxxx in silk stockings.”
Talleyrand’s career lasted long after Napoleon’s came to an end. Which may suggest that in politics, crap travels farther than any other ingredient.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
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ON THE ORIGINS OF OUR CANNIBALISM
**************************************************
Some of the e-mails I get from my self-assessed “patriotic” and “smart” readers (self-assessed, of course) are so offensive that I cannot help thinking a nation that is capable of producing such rifraff and scum faces insurmountable problems.
*
The problem with an Armenian assessing himself as smart is that sooner or later and inevitably he will run across another Armenian who has assessed himself as smarter than he, and that’s when the excrement will hit the ventilator.
*
Revolutions against tyrants generate worse tyrants. Hence the saying “mart bidi ch’ellank.”
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