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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.

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
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
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
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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Cancer Children Grow Up
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
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
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
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
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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