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Man is ruined by servility, conformism, obsequiousness, rather than aggressiveness, which is much more common in the environment than within ourselves.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

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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.

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