Brain Quote by Ashley Montagu

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

Ashley Montagu

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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

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“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record - and its potential damage to the quality of human life and the fabric of civilized society is beyond calculation. For that reason this sickness of the soul might…

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The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it!…

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