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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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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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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 way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
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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 principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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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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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.
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Hatred is love frustrated.
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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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 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 measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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 idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?
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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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