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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
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Israel Ehrenberg
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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.
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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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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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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
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Hatred is love frustrated.
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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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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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