"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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Source : "Nobel-Winning Biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini Dies in Rome at 103" by Kathy Ceceri, www.wired.com. December 31, 2012.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#Race Quotes #Joy Quotes #Bedroom Quotes

“All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another.”
“I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.”
“Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.”
“It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.”
“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
“I believe in spirits, not ghosts.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.
“I would love to continue to model. It just depends on what opportunities I get, of course, I want to always stay true to who I am and make sure in everything I do God is getting the glory. If modeling is one of those things that keeps presenting itself to me, I would love to do it and continue to get more involved.”
“(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years. He joined the liberal insurgents in 1860 in the hope of an amnesty for his past offences, and subsequently became the most formidable guerilla chief and leader of men on the Bourbon side.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1985). “Bandits”

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