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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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Others
Wells
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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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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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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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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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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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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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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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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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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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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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 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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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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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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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 majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.
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