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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
Anthropologist
University Teacher
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu
Israel Ehrenberg
M. F. Ashley-Montague
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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
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You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
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Stand still, close your eyes and listen in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
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