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Children are the most learning-hungry beings 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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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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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 Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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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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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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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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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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