Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes
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.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?
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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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You've got to be a little nasty out there. But most of the time, I'm having fun.
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My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.
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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.