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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.

Ashley Montagu

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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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Beings
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Children

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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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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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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 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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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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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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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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