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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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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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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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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 way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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 main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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