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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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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
Born
Human
Humans
Right
Potentialities
Every
Fulfillment
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The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . Old age should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion.
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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 evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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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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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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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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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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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's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
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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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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 loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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