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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what o...

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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing abo...

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The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe don't ...

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In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand ...

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The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who ...

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Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today...

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The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first...

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Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is littl...

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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught ...

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Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But...

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The Human Connection

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member ha...

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The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Science and Creationism

It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive tol...

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The Dehumanization Of Man

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

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Ashley Montagu

Anthropologist

Born: 1905-06-28

Died: 1999-11-26

Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28, 1905 - November 26, 1999) — born 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.More