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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.

Benjamin Spock

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
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
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
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
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
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
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby Diapers Size
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
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
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
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
People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
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People Realizing Said
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
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
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
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
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
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
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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