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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

Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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Education Sex Spiritual Teacher
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
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
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Children Fear Horse
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
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
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
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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Baby Mom Mother
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Children Opportunity Parent
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
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
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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Children Future Mean Parent Teacher

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