Arthur Nersesian famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.
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Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day.
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As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.
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I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ***** as he completely turned his back on me.
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Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?
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When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.
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Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
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The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.
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Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.
-- Arthur Nersesian
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
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We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
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We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
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Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.
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