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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

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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
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Israel Ehrenberg
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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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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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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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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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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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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