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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 main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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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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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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Hatred is love frustrated.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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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 evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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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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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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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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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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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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Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
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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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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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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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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
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