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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.

Benjamin Spock

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  To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

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  Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

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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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  Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

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  There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

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

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  I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

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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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  If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.

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  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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  Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

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  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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  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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