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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
Ashley Montagu
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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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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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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 natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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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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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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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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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 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 family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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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 Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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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 cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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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 doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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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 only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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