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.
BENJAMIN SPOCKTo win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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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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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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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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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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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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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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It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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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.
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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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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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