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

Benjamin Spock

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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
I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Problem Realization Spiritual
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
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
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
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’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
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
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
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
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
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
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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Believe Children Country
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

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