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I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Ashley Montagu

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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 measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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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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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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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 main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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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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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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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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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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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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It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
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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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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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