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It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

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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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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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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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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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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 idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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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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Hatred is love frustrated.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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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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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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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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Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
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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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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 measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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