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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
Anthropologist
University Teacher
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
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Israel Ehrenberg
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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 Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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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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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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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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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 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 principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
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Hatred is love frustrated.
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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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 evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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