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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Benjamin Spock

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
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
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
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
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
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
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

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