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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

Benjamin Spock

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
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
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
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
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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Children Parent Punishment
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
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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Children Fear Horse
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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
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

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