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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

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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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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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 natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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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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The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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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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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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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 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 loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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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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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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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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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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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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