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Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

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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
Unskilled
Reproduced
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Labor
Men
Nonlinear

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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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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 family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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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 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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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 cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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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 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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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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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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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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