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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

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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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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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Hatred is love frustrated.
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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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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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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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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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The idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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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 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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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 natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
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