Lina

“No one had taught us what freedom means. We'd only ever learned how to die for freedom.”
― Svetlana Alexievich

“In Switzerland, it is illegal to keep just one guinea pig.”
― John Lloyd, 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

“Note another element of Switzerland: it is perhaps the most successful country in history, yet it has traditionally had a very low level of university education compared to the rest of the rich nations. Its system, even in banking during my days, was based on apprenticeship models, nearly vocational rather than the theoretical ones. In other words, on techne (crafts and know how), not episteme (book knowledge, know what).”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

“Back then everyone was saying: "We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster