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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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Israel Ehrenberg
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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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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 basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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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 measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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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 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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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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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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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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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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It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
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Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?
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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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Hatred is love frustrated.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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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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