If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
BENJAMIN SPOCKDon’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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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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.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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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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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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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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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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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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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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