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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
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Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
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Israel Ehrenberg
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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 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 loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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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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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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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 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 main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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Hatred is love frustrated.
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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 moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
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The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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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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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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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 family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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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 only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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