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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

I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

Problem Realization Spiritual
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
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
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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Education Sex Spiritual Teacher
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
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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
Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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Father Girl Possible Zoos
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
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

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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