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A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Absorb
Age
Anyone
Be Different
Child
Different
Environment
Hatred
Perceived
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Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Above
Best
Difficult
Fear
Moments
Them
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After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
After
Centuries
Future
Hands
Look
Now
Own
Toward
Women
Young
Young Women
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At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Experience
Mind
Superior
Than
Thanks
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At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Adjust
Asked
Career
Conceived
Could
Eight
Engage
Entered
Father
Feminine
Filled
Gaps
Graduated
Greek
High
High School
Him
Latin
Mathematics
Medical
Medical School
Months
Permission
Possibly
Professional
Professional Career
Realized
Role
School
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Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Adolescent
Altogether
Attract
Babies
Developed
Did
Girl
Highly
Maternal
Me
Sense
Small
Without
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I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Be Happy
Beauty
Because
Born
Both
Capital
Country
Feminine
Happy
Human
Italy
Masculine
Other
Say
Were
You
Young
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I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Any
Bedroom
Having
Inferior
Institute
Joy
Led
Me
More
Race
Should
Thank
Unfortunately
University
Working
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I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Asked
Began
Caused
Decision
Encouraged
Father
Gaze
He
His
Knew
Listened
Looking
Me
Medicine
Mother
Penetrating
Serious
She
Speak
Study
Wanted
Way
Whether
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If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Against
Been
Discriminated
Had
Never
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Persecution
Prize
Received
Suffered
Would
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It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Brain
Care
Complex
Development
End
End Result
Engine
Environment
Exerted
Human
Human Brain
Imperfection
Influences
Intellectual
Intellectual Development
Long
Our
Perfection
Physical
Program
Psychological
Result
Takes
Us
Whoever
Written
Years
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My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Adolescence
Childhood
Convinced
Cut
Entirely
Experience
Female
Had
Me
Men
Out
Played
Role
Run
Society
Subordinate
Wife
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My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Been
Enriched
Excellent
Felt
Has-Been
Human
Human Relations
Interests
Life
Lonely
My Life
Never
Relations
Work
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Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Brain
Depends
Discoveries
Help
Help Others
Important
Important Part
Just
Make
Most
Must
Others
Our
Part
Progress
The Most Important
Used
Which
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The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and instilled in us their high appreciation of intellectual pursuit. It was, however, a typical Victorian style of life, all decisions being taken by the head of the family, the husband and father.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Appreciation
Atmosphere
Being
Both
Decisions
Devotion
Enjoyed
Family
Father
Filled
Four
Head
High
Highly
However
Husband
Instilled
Intellectual
Life
Love
Most
Parents
Pursuit
Reciprocal
Style
Taken
Typical
Us
Victorian
Were
Wonderful
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The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Chemical
Had
Instruments
Necessary
Predecessors
Project
Same
Were
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The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Cannot
Complex
Corrupted
Nobel
Prizes
Process
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Rita Levi-Montalcini
Profession
Scientist
BirthDate
22 April, 1909
DeathDate
30 December, 2012
Country
Italy
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