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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.

Benjamin Spock

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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Class Ideas Racism Routine
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
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
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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
Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
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Children Jobs Perfect
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
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
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
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
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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Occupation Trying Women
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 was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
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
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
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
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
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
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
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
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
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

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