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Ashley Montagu [1905-1999] English
Rank: 101
Scientist, Anthropologist


Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu, previously known as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. 

Medical, Science, Death, Good, Happiness, Health, Learning, Success, Women



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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. Happiness
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The idea is to die young as late as possible. Death
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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. Good, Learning, Medical, Success
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. Women
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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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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. Science
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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. Medical
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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. Health, Science
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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.
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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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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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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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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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