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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
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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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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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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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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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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 way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
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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 family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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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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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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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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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 principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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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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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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Children are the most learning-hungry beings 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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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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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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There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
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