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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.

Benjamin 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.
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Common Common Sense Experts
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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Believe Children Country
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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Father Girl Possible Zoos
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
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.
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Baby Children Learning
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
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Dance Goodbye Men
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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Cancer Children Grow Up
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
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
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.
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Dignity Husband Love Marriage

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