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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
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Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
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Israel Ehrenberg
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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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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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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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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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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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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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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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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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Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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