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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

Benjamin Spock

People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
BENJAMIN SPOCK

People Realizing Said
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
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
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
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 was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
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
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
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
Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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Children Grow Up Respect
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
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
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

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