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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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Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.

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I consider the theme of this book to be a most important one, for I am convinced, and I hope the reader will agree, that good relations between the sexes are basic to the development of good human relations in all societies.

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Human societies must be based on human relations first, and economic activities must be a function of human relations — not the other way round.

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All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

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As the god of contemporary man's idolatry, science is a two-handed engine, and as such science is too important a human activity to leave to the scientist.

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The main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert F. Kennedy

Ashley Montagu

Ashley Montagu

Born: June 28, 1905
Died: November 26, 1999 (aged 94)
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