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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Benjamin Spock

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
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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Common Common Sense Experts
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
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Children Quality Wish
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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Country Intervention War
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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Children Jobs Perfect
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
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
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
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

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