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• The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

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  Mother, Baby, Emotional

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• 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.

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  Years, Doe, Delight

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American way of LIfe”

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• Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

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  Writing, Men, Needs

  Ashley Montagu (1968). “The natural superiority of women”, Macmillan, 1956

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• In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

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  Education, Teaching, Messages

  Ashley Montagu (1958). “The Cultured Man”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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

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  Swag, Cities, Pockets

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American way of LIfe”

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• The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

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  Ice, Single Word

  Ashley Montagu (1969). “Man, His First Two Million Years: A Brief Introduction to Anthropology”, Greenwood

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• Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

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  Father, May, Littles

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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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  School, College, Littles

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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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  Health, Science, Doctors

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• Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.

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  Believe, Science, Degrees

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• Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

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  Men, Pounds, Nonlinear

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• Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

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  Mutilation, Justification, Ritual

  "Mutilated Humanity" by Ashley Montagu, 1991.

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• The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.

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  People, Ancestry, Jew

  Ashley Montagu, (2013). “Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race”, p.223, Read Books Ltd

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• You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

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  Brain, Genius, Idiot

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

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  Artist, Men, Humanity

  Ashley Montagu (1958). “The Cultured Man”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• No one should be required to see America for the first time.

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  Travel, Home, America

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

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  Personality, Purpose, Victorian

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