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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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... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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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 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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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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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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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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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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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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Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?
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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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Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
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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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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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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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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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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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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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