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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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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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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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Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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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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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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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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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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Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
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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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The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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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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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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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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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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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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