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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
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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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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 idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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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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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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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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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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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 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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Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.
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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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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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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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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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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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