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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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The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.
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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 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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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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There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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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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Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
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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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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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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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It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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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 natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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