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Quotes by Ashley Montagu

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Mental health is the ability to love, the ability to work, the ability to play, and the ability to use your mind soundly.
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The many sophisticated forms of swearing we shall consider attest to the fact that since man first learned to speak imagination and inventiveness have been outstanding characteristics of his speech.
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Swearing, because it is so little understood, is still an equivocal form of conduct without social sanction. That is to say swearing is socially tolerated in any form.
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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 behavioral trait most frequently associated with the long-lived is placidity.
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The measure of man’s humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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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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It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable.
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The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.
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It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle.
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