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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 natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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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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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 loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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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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Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
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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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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 evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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Hatred is love frustrated.
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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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 cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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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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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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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 Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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