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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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
Humanity
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Mankind
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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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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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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 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 way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
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The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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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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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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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 doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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