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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.

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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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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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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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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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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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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Hatred is love frustrated.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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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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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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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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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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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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It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
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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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Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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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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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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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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