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• At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.

  Mark Lynas

  Safety, Enough, Staff

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• An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Autumn, Night

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• Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

  Truman Capote

  Spring, Fall, Autumn

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.54, Vintage

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• His suspicion that he was not going in the right direction tortmented him more and more. At last he had the conviction that he would never go anywhere but in the wrong direction, to the very end of the handful of days that was left to him, unhappy moonstruck pilgrim, whose April was to be cut off short.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Cutting, Unhappy, Lasts

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• Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Spring, Ideas

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.161, e-artnow

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• Acting is an empty and useless profession.

  Marlon Brando

  Funny, Acting, Empty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In a democracy the day when you pay your taxes, April 15, would be a day of celebration, because you're getting together to provide resources for the programs you decided on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy, Together, Would Be

  Source: www.iww.org

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• Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

  James Mattis

  Soccer, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mean, Black And White, Long

  Source: www.mott.org

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• See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of oil. ... It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveler on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Hunting, Games

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.294, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• In April 2007 I learned that Yves Saint Laurent had a brain tumor, and he died on June 1, 2008. During those 14 months I had plenty of time to think about what would happen. There was only one solution: the auction. An auction establishes memory. That's what I want to do.

  Pierre Berge

  Memories, Thinking, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• April is a fun month.

  Justin Bieber

  Fun, Cocky, Months

  Twitter post from Apr 1, 2013

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• Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Population, Today, Fewer

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• The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

  Harry Shearer

  Play, Hey, Christmas Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Elizabeth Anne Taylor April 25, 1974 - April 25, 2004 Our Sweetheart, Only resting

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Sweetheart

  MaryJanice Davidson (2006). “Undead and Unreturnable: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.

  Farkas Bolyai

  Time, Spring, Light

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• I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact that we are related by blood (...)

  Adolf Hitler

  Blood, Chinese, Islam

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• The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.

  Antonio Machado

  Wall, Memories, Spring

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Law, Special

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• Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast,
  Of which some days I with design have past;
  A part in April and a part in May
  Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay;
  And as the confines of two months are thine
  To sing of both the double task be mine.

  Ovid

  Past, Two, Design

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• It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn't belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Night, House, Finding Yourself

  Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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• The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.

  Arnold Leese

  Mother, Japan, Two

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• Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April's showers And two and two always makes a five It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can SCREAM and you can shout It is too late now Because... You have not been Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! You have not been paying attention!

  Thom Yorke

  Home, Two, Rights

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• To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
  For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
  Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
  Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
  Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd
  In process of the seasons have I seen,
  Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
  Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Eye

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

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• December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

  Mark Twain

  June, July, August

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