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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

Benjamin Spock

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
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
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’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Problem Realization Spiritual
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
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
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
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
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
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
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
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
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

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