English - Scientist | June 28, 1905 - November 26, 1999
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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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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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
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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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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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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
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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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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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