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All Quotes by author - Ashley Montagu

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago. "

" Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The idea is to die young as late as possible. "

" The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. "

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

" The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. "

" 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. "

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