A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
BENJAMIN SPOCKHow to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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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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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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.
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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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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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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