"At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobylâ€™s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check â€“ ironically enough â€“ the reactorâ€™s safety."

-- Mark Lynas

#Safety Quotes #April Quotes #Enough Quotes

“I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.”
“The spiritual destiny of Hawaii has been shaped by a Calvinist theory of paternalism enacted by the descendants of the missionaries who had carried it there: a will to do good for unfortunates regardless of what the unfortunates thought about it.”
“In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.”
“The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.”

Source : Helen Cresswell (2017). “The Bagthorpe Saga: Ordinary Jack (Collins Modern Classics)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK
“Only one thingâ€™s sadder than remembering you were once free, and thatâ€™s forgetting you were once free.”
“I've always looked at people like Carine Roitfeld, Donatella Versace, DVF...people who when you walk on a set you feel like they still have so much excitement for what they're doing every day and they just have so much youth even though they've been doing it for so long. Every day just working to keep a young spirit - because even when you're young that's hard to do, because you get so caught up in things. I just think it's so important to make an effort every day to have a young spirit. Then when you get older, you always kind of keep that.”
“My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.”
“I had no idea what time Iâ€™d left, how Iâ€™d gotten home, whoâ€™d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.”

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