To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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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.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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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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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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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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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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