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Benjamin Spock42 quotes“It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.”
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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock 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.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock It’s not the words but the music that counts.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Benjamin SpockBenjamin Spock Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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From the fear and constriction that’s sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.
Bellamy YoungBellamy Young It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
Benjamin HaydonBenjamin Haydon I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
Ben SteinBen Stein Im not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.
Ben NelsonBen Nelson Our first responders risk their lives to help others. The least we can do is make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs.
Ben NelsonBen Nelson Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
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