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  • Re: crime

    sometimes even a bad habit!

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    • Re: crime

      NOTES / COMMENTS
      *************************************
      The speed of darkness
      exceeds the speed of light.
      *
      If most people lust for success,
      success can’t be a good thing.
      *
      My standard answer to those who say
      I see only the dark side of things:
      “Nobody is paying me to lie.”
      *
      People don’t want their problems solved
      because the solution may expose them
      as former dupes.
      *
      All religions have a history
      and all histories have a beginning and an end.
      *
      Chickens are failed dinosaurs.
      There is a moral and a lesson in that.
      *
      Some men may be smarter than chickens
      but most of them cannot even produce
      an honest egg.
      *
      You want answers to all your problems?
      Join a congregation.
      #

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      • Re: crime

        Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
        ON IGNORANCE
        **********************************

        Our misfortunes did not fall on us
        like thieves in the night:
        we invited them;
        and when they responded to our invitation
        we pretended to be astonished.
        *

        #
        Our misfortunes come from over dependence on foreign powers and the false assumption that the great powers would come to Armenia's aid even when the great powers did nothing after the 1894-96 atrocities, and did nothing when Turkey invaded Armenia in 1920

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        • Re: crime

          FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
          **********************************
          To be happy means to be in deep xxxx
          and not know it.
          *
          I come from an environment with a mindset
          that assumes the victim to be guilty
          for failing to take evasive action.
          *
          To love popular music means
          to trust mob rule.
          *
          We are a nation constipated
          with too much bad history.
          *
          An Armenian disagreement
          is my definition of verbal massacre.
          #

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          • Re: crime

            exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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            • Re: crime

              ON IDENTITY
              *******************************
              Just because I was born in Greece,
              that doesn’t make me a Greek.
              Just because I was educated in Italy…
              Just because I live in Canada…
              Who the hell am I?
              My tentative answer:
              an Armenian whose ambition in life
              is to be born again as a human being.
              *
              ON TURKS
              ***********************
              A Turk, very much like a rose,
              is a Turk, is a Turk.
              Bad reputation in the West.
              In Vittorio de Sica’s TWO WOMEN,
              Sophia Loren identifies her rapists as Turks.
              They were Moroccans.
              *
              ON ARMENIANS
              *****************************
              When they are not confused with
              Romanians or the Biblical Aramaeans
              they are perceived
              as smart operators in the marketplace,
              and smart in the sense of,
              after you shake hands with one
              count your fingers…
              #

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              • Re: crime

                Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
                ON IDENTITY
                *******************************
                ON ARMENIANS
                *****************************
                When they are not confused with
                Romanians or the Biblical Aramaeans
                they are perceived
                as smart operators in the marketplace,
                and smart in the sense of,
                after you shake hands with one
                count your fingers…
                #
                To be famous as cunning traders can mean that, in the community the traders represent, money is valued above all else, which
                needless to say, is a dangerous concept if dealing with managing a country!

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                • Re: crime

                  ON LOVE: TWO VIEWS
                  *********************************
                  Love is a creative force.
                  It sees things that aren’t there.
                  *
                  Love is a racket.
                  Women know this.
                  By the time men find out,
                  it’s too late.
                  *
                  ON LEADERSHIP
                  **************************
                  The captain goes down with the ship.
                  Armenian translation:
                  The captain is the first to abandon ship.
                  *
                  ON SURVIVAL
                  ********************
                  When our leaders brag
                  about our instinct for survival,
                  they mean of course their own.
                  *
                  THE FUNCTION OF LEADERSHIP
                  **************************************
                  Combating the enemy’s big lies
                  with bigger lies.
                  *
                  ON POETRY
                  ******************
                  Poetry should be as accessible as
                  “To be or not to be,” and
                  “Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.”
                  Poetry that needs footnotes
                  is chocolate-coated b.s.
                  *
                  BIG LIES
                  *************************
                  To explain the incomprehensible and the unknowable,
                  man has created ten thousand gods
                  and twice as many big lies.
                  *
                  MORE ON LEADERSHIP
                  ***********************************
                  The main function of leadership
                  is to convince the 99%
                  they know nothing
                  and they understand even less.
                  #

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                  • Re: crime

                    we are on the same page!

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                    • Re: crime

                      MORE IS LESS
                      **************************************************
                      A Turkish-Armenian is more Turkish and less Armenian.
                      A Soviet-Armenian is more Soviet and less Armenian.
                      An Armenian-American is more American and less Armenian.
                      An Armenian from the Middle-East is more Levantine and less Armenian.
                      Something similar could be said of French-Armenians,
                      Greek-Armenians, Italian-Armenians
                      (assuming there are some left), and so on.
                      That's because, in Krikor Zohrab's words:
                      “As impressionable as soft wax,
                      the Armenian acquires indiscriminately the virtues as well as the vices
                      of the country in which he happens to be living.”
                      *
                      And I remember a retired Armenian schoolteacher in her eighties
                      (may she rest in peace and may the blessing of the Lord be upon her)
                      saying, “Armenians are fast learners of all the wrong things.”
                      #

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