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1909–2012 Italy
Rita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurologist and politician who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Rare are those people who use the mind, few use the heart and really unique are those who use both.
After centuries of dormancy, young women can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
The women who changed the world never needed to show anything other than their own intelligence.
Better to add life to your days than days to your life.
In life one should never give in, surrender oneself to mediocrity, but rather move out of that grey area where everything is habit and passive resignation. One has to grow the courage to rebel.
The young need to know how lucky they are to have been born in this splendid country, Italy.
The allegations against Fidia cannot be true. The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
I'm an atheist: I don't know what it means to believe in God.
Man is ruined by servility, conformism, obsequiousness, rather than aggressiveness, which is much more common in the environment than within ourselves.
I never had any hesitation or regrets in this sense. My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
Everything came easy to me in life. I could always shake off difficulties, like water on a duck's wings.
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