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I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

Benjamin Spock

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Children Dad Parenting
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
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
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
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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Believe Children People
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
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.
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Education Sex Spiritual Teacher
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
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Children Peace War
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
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.
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Baby Children Mother
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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Occupation Trying Women

I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

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