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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.
Ashley Montagu
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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
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The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . Old age should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion.
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... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.
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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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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.
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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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