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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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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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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 idea of race represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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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 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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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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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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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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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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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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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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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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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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It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
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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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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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