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I really learned it all from mothers.

Benjamin Spock

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
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Class Ideas Racism Routine
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Satisfaction Selfish Successful
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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Long People Strong
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Children Grow Up Respect
Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Common Sense Experts
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Children Home Husband
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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Children Parent Punishment
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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Children Future Mean Parent Teacher
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
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Children Confidence Wisdom

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