The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
BENJAMIN SPOCKWhen women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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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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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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