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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 evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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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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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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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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The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
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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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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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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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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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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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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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