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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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Men
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Hatred is love frustrated.
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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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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 idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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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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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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