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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

It’s not the words but the music that counts.

Benjamin Spock

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  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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  People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”

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  I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

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  If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.

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  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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  A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

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  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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  Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

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  The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

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  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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  Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

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  It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…

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  I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

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  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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  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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