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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

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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Humanity
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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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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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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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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 loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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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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Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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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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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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 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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It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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Stand still, close your eyes and listen in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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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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