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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashley Montagu
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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
Anthropologist
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Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu
Israel Ehrenberg
M. F. Ashley-Montague
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By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
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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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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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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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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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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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Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.
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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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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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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 family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
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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 measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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