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... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
Ashley Montagu
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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
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Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
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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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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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