NOTES & COMMENTS

Tuesday, December 25, 2007
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To those of my readers who disagree with me, sometimes violently, I say: I hear you. I feel your pain. Once upon a time I too was brainwashed to think, or rather to feel, as you do. To learn to think, to think for oneself, which also means to think against oneself, is a painfully slow process. It takes time. Be patient with yourself and tolerant with those who try to reason with you. Evolution is a law of nature. Never say therefore you will not change, for that way lies stagnation, degeneration, and death.
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Instead of saying, the great powers deceived us, we should ask, why did we behave like dupes? Instead of saying the Turks massacred us, we should ask ourselves, why did we surrender our fate into their hands for 600 years?
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A man who is convinced he knows everything he needs to know is a case of arrested underdevelopment.
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The more you deceive yourself the more transparent you become to others.
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If you know 100 things and claim to know 101, sooner or later someone is sure to expose you as an ignoramus.
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