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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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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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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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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 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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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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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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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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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 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 family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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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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The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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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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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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