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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.

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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Whatsoever
Toward
Sensibility
Education
Directed
Individual
Individuality
Living
Fellow
Humans
Equality
Callousness
Things
Fellows
Sensibilities
Life
Everywhere
Refinement

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