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[C]ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

— Ashley Montagu Mutilated Humanity (1991)

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

The omelet called “race” has no existence outside the statistical frying- pan in which it has been reduced by the heat of the anthropological imagination.

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

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

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