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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Benjamin Spock

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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
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
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Children Home Husband
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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Class Ideas Racism Routine
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
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Baby Children Mother
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
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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Long People Strong
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
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
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Children Grow Up Respect
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
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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Children Future Mean Parent Teacher
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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Believe Children People
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
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

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