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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

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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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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 way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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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 measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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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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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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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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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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