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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.

~Ashley Montagu

Topics: Enjoy Happiness Moments Seize Surprise Take Them Us

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The idea is to die young as late as possible.

~Ashley Montagu

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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

~Ashley Montagu

Topics: About College Deal Goes Good Good Deal Goodness Learning Little Medical Medical School Nothing School Success Through

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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.

~Ashley Montagu

Topics: Along Assembly Assembly Line Been Between Caring Curing Did Faculty He Informed Intimate Line Medical Member Much Relation Said Schools Some Somewhere Students Which

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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.

~Ashley Montagu

Topics: Become Becoming Beings Between Capable Deepest Defeat Difference Fact Human Human Beings In Fact Personal Suffered

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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

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Topics: Artist Humanity Man

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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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Topics: Being Born Development Every Fulfillment His Human Human Being Humanity Right Virtue

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Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

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Topics: Because Boy Causes Certain Chronic Direction Girl Gravitate Irritation Love Marry Objects Properties Them

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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

~Ashley Montagu

Topics: Acknowledged Biological Fact Natural Reality Socially Superiority Women

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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

~Ashley Montagu

Topics: Any Certainty Creationist Proof Science Without

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: June 28th, 1905

Died: November 26th, 1999

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