Lina

“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

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

“He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Switzerland will continue to have a far more complex and striking history than most outsiders realize, and one most unlikely to follow a single simple trajectory. Indeed, because of its very particularity, Swiss history cannot serve as a model for others – anymore than can Swiss politics – but it remains fascinating and worth studying both for itself and because it offers a better understanding of the full range of possibilities that European polities have produced.”
― Clive H. Church, A Concise History of Switzerland