It’s not the words but the music that counts.
BENJAMIN SPOCKIt’s not the words but the music that counts.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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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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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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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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